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DESIGN PORTFOLIO MUSHFIQ RIHAN

MUSHFIQ RIHAN B.S Architecture Masters of Architecture University at Buffalo rihanmushfiq001@gmail.com 718-637-9328

MUSHFIQ RIHAN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER Brooklyn, NY ||

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SUMMARY

Architectural designer with an M.Arch and hands-on experience across the full project pipeline, from on-site documentation and construction drawing sets to 3D modeling and construction administration. Skilled in Revit, Rhino, and Lumion, with project experience ranging from high-end residential, hospitality, and commercial amenity spaces at mid- to large scale.

SKILLS

Design/ Digital Software • • • • • • • • • •

Revit - Intermediate AutoCAD - Advanced Rhino 3D - Advanced Lumion - Advanced Adobe Photoshop - Advanced Adobe Illustrator - Intermediate Adobe InDesign - Advanced MS Oﬃce - Advanced MS Excel - Intermediate MS Powerpoint - Intermediate

Design Process • • • • • •

Schematic Design Design Development Hand Sketching/ Drafting Model Making Diagraming Project Management

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EXPERIENCE

Junior Architectural Designer | LABO Design Studio September 2025 - PRESENT New York, NY

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Produce full construction drawing sets for two multi-million-dollar single-family residential projects (full renovation and a ground-up addition), covering architectural, millwork, and furniture fabrication details/ drawings. Manage construction administration through RFIs and SK drawings, supporting the contractor throughout the build. Develop accurate 3D models and renderings to communicate design intent across project phases. Select Lighting/ Plumbing ﬁxtures as well as appliances & material ﬁnishes for project.

Architectural Design Intern|Architecture + Information June 2023 - August 2023 (3 Months) New York, NY

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Created detailed architectural drawings with accurate dimensions and material speciﬁcations in Revit. Developed 3D building models to support schematic design and design development phases. Participated in client meetings to gather design requirements and contributed feedback on conceptual design solutions.

Drafting Intern|Dynamic Construction Company June 2022 - August 2022 (3 Months) Brooklyn, NY

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Collaborated with engineers, architects, and professionals to document project designs in AutoCAD. Produced comprehensive detailed drawings utilizing AutoCAD, ensuring precise implementation of design parameters.

Architectural Design Intern|MBCC General Contractor June 2021 - August 2021 (3 Months) Brooklyn, NY

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Performed On-Site documentation to produce pre-construction documents highlighting scope of work for a roof replacement for Elmhurst Hospital. Took accurate site measurements to support building planning stages.

EDUCATION Masters of Architecture|University at Buffalo

Additional Skills/ Hobbies • • • • •

Wood Framing Graphic Design 3D Printing CNC Cutting Wood Working

August 2023 - May 2025 Buﬀalo, NY

Bachelor of Science in Architecture|University at Buffalo August 2019 - May 2023 Buﬀalo, NY

AWARDS & RECOGNITION Top 3 Placement|University at Buffalo Housing Competition December 2022

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The University at Buﬀalo Housing Competition challenged students to renovate an existing apartment building and design a new extension. My project placed top 3, recognized for its site orientation and placement within the context of the neighborhood.

Project Showcase|University at Buffalo Intersight 26 & 27 May 2024| May 2025

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Intersight is an annual journal from the University at Buﬀalo School of Architecture and Planning that showcases exceptional student. Selected projected included my community fridge project, for the student built works category.

EXPRESSED CONNECTION

HAVEN APARTMENT COMPLEX

REIMAGINING ALBANY

CONTENT PHIUS PASSIVE HOUSE

BUFFALO COMMUNITY FRIDGE

HAVEN APARTMENT COMPLEX Architecture Design Studio 7 (BS. Arch) Fall 2022 Instructor: Annette LeCuyer Partner: Claire Birkemeier

Haven reimagines the BMHA Sedita Apartments, an existing affordable-housing block in Buffalo, as transitional housing for people experiencing homelessness. The project pairs a renovation of the existing building with a new extension, giving residents a temporary home for up to a year alongside the social services they need to move toward permanent housing. Two public programs anchor the ground level. A day center provides access to public showers, an art gallery, and a medical office, while a separate office space houses the BMHA social services that help residents secure long-term housing.

TOTAL HOMELESS HOUSEHOLD

TOTAL HOMELESS HOUSEHOLD (SINGLE)

TOTAL HOMELESS HOUSEHOLD (FAMILY)

3,200

2,887

313

GENDER BREAKDOWN OF HOMELESS POPULATION

SINGLE ADULTS

FAMILIES

1. Existing Building.

New York State, like much of the country, is facing a sharp decline in affordable housing as rents continue to climb. According to the Homeless Alliance of Western New York, the region’s homeless population grew 46% between 2010 and 2017, and since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, the number of families entering emergency shelters has risen by a further 49%. Haven responds with a clear aim: to expand the supply of affordCOUPLES (NO CHILDREN) able housing through a flexible living system that meets both long- and short-term needs.

2. Adding Day Center at Ground Level of Extension.

4. Residential Floors w/ Roof Terrace Space.

3. Shared Community Space, Emergency Housing.

5. Complete Massing.

At the base of the extension, a day center creates a social anchor at the corner of Richmond Avenue and Summer Street. Its forecourt opens as a welcoming gesture to the neighborhood, a place for residents to gather for local events or use the community gym. The building also houses offices for the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority (BMHA), giving residents direct, on-site access to the services they can rely on.

SITE PLAN

STREET VIEW OF FRONT FACADE

1. Shared Kitchen 2. Restroom 3. Shower 4. Temporary Shelter 5. Gym 6. Weight Room 7. Yoga Room

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

TYPICAL RESIDENTIAL FLOOR

INTERIOR LOBBY VIEW

INTERIOR APARTMENT UNIT VIEW

EXPRESSED CONNECTION Architecture Design Studio 3 (M. Arch) Fall 2024 Instructor: Jen Oakley

Expressed Connection pairs a group-home community with public programs that help integrate residents with developmental disabilities into Buffalo’s Kingsley neighborhood and normalize that presence as part of everyday community life. For many people with developmental disabilities, learning and socializing in conventional settings can be challenging. The project responds with an alternative: art-making as both a form of education and a shared means of self-expression for residents and neighbors alike. As its name suggests, the project is built around connection aiming linking people through art-making and through workshops run by the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) that help participants build skills and access job opportunities.

SECTION E

APARTMENT RENDER

SECTION D

Pavilion

The pavilion serves as the focal point where the two public buildings comverge, acting as an entryway and transition space. It facilitates interaction between users participating in and observing art.

Community Garden

A community garden sits between the two group homes, offering residents a chance to connect with nature and work togather to make the garen thrive.

Building #1

Building 1 houses an office for the Pffice for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD), as well as an art making space, which consists of 3 maker space/ classroom and one grand lecture space.

Residential

On the site are 2 group homes, each with 3 bedroom and 2 bathroom, as well as a room for staff that are responsible for taking care of the residents.

Building #2

Building 2 features a gallery/ exhibition spaces for local artists and class participants to showcase their work, alongside a cafe where visitors can enjoy food, with views into the gallery.

Parking

The site features three parking spaces: two for private residential use and one public parking lot.

Circulation

Cirulation on site follows a skewed path towards MLK Park and Buffalo Science museum. Red arrows indicate movement around the center, the gallery, OPWDD office, and cafe. Blue represents circulation from the community garden to the residential areas and pblic buildings.

PROJECT ORIENTATION DIAGRAM

VIEW OF CENTER CANOPY

SECTION A

NORTH ELEVATION

REIMAGINING ALBANY Architecture Design Studio 4 (M. Arch) Spring 2025 Instructor: Greg Delaney Sponsered By: Gensler

The BIG Projects Studio, affiliated with the urban planning research group, focused on the Empire State Plaza — one of New York State’s most significant and controversial projects. Its construction severed a once-vibrant, densely populated residential neighborhood, introducing a massive elevated plinth and Interstate 787. The studio identified several moments of intervention:

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Enhance the Plaza’s human scale by improving pedestrian movement and visual connectivity, both currently lacking.

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Remove the South Mall Arterial, a highway spur that ties the Plaza to Interstate 787 while severing connections to the neighborhoods east of it.

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Create a new innovation district to revive Albany’s social and economic life.

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Add a parkway linking the Plaza to that district, the surrounding neighborhood, and the Hudson riverfront.

The Empire State Plaza was conceived as a symbol of New York’s political and governmental power. Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller’s vision was clear: a monumental civic center projecting modernity and the strength of the state. Today the Plaza comprises ten major structures: the Erastus Corning Tower, four Agency Buildings, the Legislative Office Building, the Robert Abrams Building for Law and Justice, the Swan Street Building, The Egg performing arts center, and the Cultural Education Center. All ten are connected below grade by a circulation and service corridor known as the Concourse, which provides access, amenities, and logistical support beneath the Plaza level.

The 98-acre site around Empire State Plaza is dominated by infrastructure: the Elevated South Mall Arterial, MVP Arena, and a vast expanse of parking lots and garages serving workers and visitors. The expanded area shown in the diagram has 13 transit lines serving 47 stops, but coverage is uneven. Many residential areas near the downtown core lack immediate access and require long walks or drives to reach a stop. Combined capacity from parking (10,138 spaces) and full buses across those stops totals 44,312 people. Peak downtown demand, assuming all parking, transit, and Arena use, reaches 54,631, while average demand, excluding the Arena, is 32,919.

BIG PROJECT STUDIO INTERVENTION & GOALS After researching Albany’s history alongside the construction of the site, and visiting the Empire State Plaza, the BIG Projects Studio defined three goals:

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Reconnect: Address movement to and from the Plaza with new extensions behind the Cultural Education Center, easing the path from Lincoln Park into the Plaza. A new Art Hall on the east side, facing the South Mall Arterial, resolves the grade change between street level and the Plaza’s plinth. A new parkway then replaces the arterial itself, stitching back neighborhoods the Plaza had isolated.

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Revitalize: Create new social and economic opportunities for Albany’s future through an Innovation District: a hub dedicated to advancing technology and home to businesses that bring jobs. Across the river in Rensselaer, a new Stadium District draws cultural and economic activity from beyond the city as well as from locals.

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Humanize: Apply a human-first approach to improve how the site is lived in and moved through. New grand entrances to the Concourse at the Plaza level ease the tedious circulation that defines the site today, while reintroducing the old street grid that was broken up by the highway spur, with the intenion of reconnecting the Plaza back into the surrounding city.

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Museum Road

The Korean War Memorial

Eternal Flame

New York State Women Veterans Memorial

New York State Purple Hear Memorial

Empire Street Car Madison Avenue

South Swan Street

South Swan Street Woonerf

Untitled Forrest Myers

Empire Street Car

Agency Building 1

Trio George Sugarman

Triangles and Arches by Alexander Calder

Empire Street Car

Double One On C Herbert Ferber

Agency Building 2

Elmo V Dimitri Hadzi

Hudson J. Park Community Gardens

Swan Street Building

To Concourse Level + Bus Terminal

East Cap and Ramp

Agency Building 3

Yellow Blue Ellsworth Kelly

Wisborn Temple First Church

The Snake is Out, 1/3 Tony Smith

Two Line Oblique George Rickey

Skylights to Concourse

Reflecting Pool

The Egg

Preforming Arts Center

Lancaster Street New York State Police Officers Memorial

Agency Building 4

Geometric Mouse Claes Oldenburg

Untitled Julius Schidt

The Cathedral Evening by Ronald Balden

New York State Fallen Firefighters Memorial

Wild Rice Lyman Kipp

Elevator to Concourse Level

New York State Vietnam Memorial

Chestnut Street

Park Street

Eagle Street

Legislative Office Building

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Court of Claims

Robert Abrhams Building

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New York State Museum New York State Archive

Resturant and Bar

Hudson Avenue

Cornerstone at the Plaza

Albany Captial Center

State Street

Jefferson Street

Cultural Education Center - CEC

Hamilton Street

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Jay Street Exhaust Vent

Exhaust Vent

Lancaster Street Lancaster Street

Hamilton Street

Erastus Corning II Tower

Abby Alrich Art Hall

Eagle Street

MVP Arena Parking Gargae

Howard Street

New York State World War II Memorial

Labyrinth Francois Stahly

Abby Alrich Art Hall Access

Hudson Mall

Empire Street Car Jay Street

CEC Lincoln Park Extension

Histroic 1860s Governor Nelson A. Rockefeler Residence

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New York State Executive Mansion

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New York State D Criminal Justice

INTERVENTION TO THE PLAZA When considering moments of intervention on the Empire State Plaza, several points of interest were identified: North Side - Considered the main entrance to the Plaza facing the New York State Capitol. A grand staircase was craved into the ground, creating a main entrance to the Concourse Leveling, mirroring the grand entrance on the south side of the site on Madison Avenue.

BEFORE

AFTER

Behind the C.E.C - Facing Lincoln Park, the back of the Cultural Education Center is currently inaccessible to the public, and is entirely dedicated as a parking lot for staff. This was identified as a major opportunity to create a museum extension that bring in people from the park.

BEFORE

AFTER

HUDSON MALL & INNOVATION DISTRICT The BIG Project Studio proposed removing the South Mall Arterial (a highway spur meant to link Albany and Rensselaer to I-787), replacing it with a new parkway, the Hudson Mall, plus two new bridges. This corridor reconnects the Empire State Plaza with neighborhoods to the east and adds residential and mixed use development to revitalize a community long disrupted by the Plaza’s construction. Albany has theinfrastructure, universities, and ambition to be an innovation hub, but its assets are scattered: research labs, startups, and anchors like SUNY Albany and RPI operate in isolation, limiting their collective impact. The response is an Innovation District uniting these fragmented elements into one cohesive ecosystem. Embedded in the city, shaped by its people, and anchored by inclusive public spaces, it is designed for flexibility and collaboration, becoming a central hub for Albany’s growing AI community where independent initiatives thrive together. It starts with a defined mix of programs:

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Green Hudson Garage

Liberty Park Hudson Avenue

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Albany’s Oldest Building

Innovative 518 Center

NanoTech Complex Expansion

Jay Street

Empire Street Car

Hudson Mall

Alrich Way

Bond Bridge

Empire Street Car

Convention Center

Empire AI Hub

Van Zandt Street

Liberty Street

Green Street

International Business Machines Center

Hudosn Boulevard

Green Street

Liberty Street

Center for Semiconductor Research

Consortium Center

Center for Emerging AI Systems

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At the center of the Innovation District is a cirucular building. It houses a Convention Center and Food Hall, where Albany’s communities and industries intersect. Also on the site is a proposed reflecting pool, a call back to the reflecting pool of the Empire State Plaza, but also a design choice to preserve the uninterupted view of the Hudson Mall that looks towards the river. The Innovation Center is not a corporate headquarters, it is a civic common — the space where innovation is experienced by the public. It is inteded to be a place where events, exhibitions, job fairs, and meals are held.

View looking down Hudsonn Mall towards the River

View of Convention & Food Hall (Center of District)

PHIUS PASSIVE HOUSE CPHC (M.Arch) Fall 2023 Instructor: Nick Rajkovich

The Passive House Institute US (PHIUS) is a nonprofit dedicated to decarbonizing the built environment through high-performance passive buildings. Because PHIUS standards vary by climate zone, each with its own requirements, PHIUS requires designing a home that stays warm in winter and cool in summer. High-quality materials, careful construction methods, and highly efficient HVAC systems work together to maintain that comfort while keeping indoor air clean. For this project, students were tasked with designing a 3,600-squarefoot, two-story house with four bedrooms and a garden-style basement in Chicago, Illinois.

COMMUNITY FRIDGE Small Builds Project (BS. Arch) Spring 2023 Instructor: Bradley Wales Sponsered By: Buffalo Community Fridge (BCF)

Working in pairs, we designed a shelter for a community fridge to be installed at Groundwork Market Garden (GMG). Buffalo’s harsh weather drove the key design decisions, shaping a structure that reliably protects both the fridge and the food donated to it. What is a Community Fridge? A community fridge is a community drive food donation service, where a fridge is placed in public for people to either donate fresh and healthy food or retrieve those foods.

¾” Plywood Sheathing Painted

MFM Peel N’ Seal Self Stick Roofing

4x4 2x4 4x4 ¾” Plywood Sheathing Painted

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Opening

¾” Plywood Sheathing Painted

Foot #2 (F2)

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Open

Clear

4x4 Open Foot #3 (F3)

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Foot #4 (F4)

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FRONT ELEVATION

Front Elevation 35

Foot #2 See Custom

Double 2"X4" Joist Hanger MFM Peal N’ Seal Stick 3/4" Plywood Sheathing

2"X4" Joist Hanger 2"X4"

Double 2"X4" (2) 3" Steel Angle W/ Drop Edge

2"X4" 4"X4" 3/4" Plywood Sheathing Painted

3/4" Plywood Sheathing

4"X4" 2"X4" 2"X4" 4"X4"

2"X4" (2) Foot #1 (F1)

4"X4"

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Foot #3 (F3) See Custom Foot Option Sheet

SECTION A Section A

Buffalo Community Fridge Project

Fridge Address: Groundwork Market Garden 52 Leslie St, Buffalo, NY, 14211 Date: 05/03/2023

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¾” Plywood Sheathing Painted

C University at Buffalo

B/a+p South Campus Buffalo, New York 14214

ARC 404

Section/ Deta

Professor: B. Wales Drafting Designer: Fridge Team

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2x4

4x4 4x4

2x4 ¾” Plywood Sheathing Painted

FLOOR PLAN 37

Brisk

MFM Peel N’ Seal Self Stick

¾” Plywood Sheathing Painted

MFM Peel N' Seal Self Stick ¾” Plywood Sheathing

Aluminum Drip

¾” Plywood Edge Sheathing Painted

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University at Buffalo B/a+p 2x4 South Campus Buffalo, New York 14214

ARC 404 ¾” Plywood Sheathing Painted Professor: B. Wales Drafting Designer: Fridge Team

Side Elevation

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Sheet 4 of 15

4x4 4x4

¾” Plywood Sheathing Painted

4x4 ¾” Plywood Sheathing Painted 4x4 Foot #4 (F4)

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SHELF ELEVATION

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