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Sonja Vangjeli | Design PortfolioHarvard Graduate School of DesignMLA I AP Candidate 2015
DESIGN STUDIOS
6 RELATIONAL URBANISM: A Framework for variability MArch Thesis 2013
10 AGENTS OF OPPORTUNITY Landscape Core Studio III 2013
12 THE UNITED STATES OF GUARANI Theories Mapping Project 2013
14 TORONTO: HARBOUR CITY 3B Design Option Studio 2009
16 MUSEO TEVERE 4A Design Studio 2010
18 MULTICULTURAL LANGUAGE CENTRE
1B Design Studio 2007
20 URBAN HOUSING 2A Design Studio 2007
22 STOA: A contemporary space of contemplation 4B Comprehensive Design Studio 2011
PROFESSIONAL WORK
28 EGLINTON WEST LRT STATION STREETSCAPE
29 2015 PAN AM GAMES STADIA LANDSCAPE 2011 Internship at regional Architects / planning Alliance
30 OAKVILLE ARTS DISTRICT
31 UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART 2010 Internship at Kuwabara Payne Mckenna Blumberg Architects
32 LANGLEY TOWN CENTRE MASTER PLAN 2010 Internship at Folio Resort & Hotel Architecture
33 FLEMING COLLEGE SKILLED TRADES CENTRE 2009 Internship at Perkins + Will Toronto
COMPETITIONS, INSTALLATIONS &
ARTWORK
36 SULPHUR DELL MARKET DISTRICT
ULI Hines Urban Design Competition 2014
38 CHORA: Performative installation 2B Design Studio 2008
39 soundSCAPE:Experiential installation 3B Design Studio 2009
40 PHOTOGRAPHY Travel photographs
41 FINE ARTS Paintings & Conceptual Art
42 TRAVEL SKETCHES Rome 2010
CONTENTS
DESIGN STUDIOS
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Urban Political Ecology
In a context of rapid urbanization and increasingly standardized built environments, urbanism must find new methods of creating appropriate conditions for the variability of contemporary urban life. The city, understood as a system of interconnected processes in constant change, offers a relational way of thinking about urban design. This thesis explores the concept of Relational Urbanism through a strategic design approach that engages the complexity of the site to create variability in the built environment by relating built form to landscape elements. This relational approach has particular potential in post-industrial sites, where challenging existing conditions and processes of remediation resist conventional methods of redevelopment.
Relational Design Approach
Diverse & Adaptable Urbanism
Landscape Framework
Built Form Framework
Strategy 2:
Urban Delta
Strategy 3:
Adapted industrySpeculative Evolution
Contingencies
Adaptive Management
User Participation
Strategy 4:
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Remediation Parks
Ecosystems Thinking Landscape Urbanism Participatory Urbanism
RELATIONAL URBANISM
Rule-based Urbanism Parametric Urbanism
ECOLOGICAL POLITICAL SOCIAL FORMAL
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RELATIONAL URBANISMMArch Thesis, 2013 | Advisor: Adrian Blackwell
1 Relational Design Approach2 Theoretical Framework
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The thesis focuses on the Toronto Port Lands as a testing ground for this design approach, drawing on the site’s built heritage to develop a landscape framework and a set of relational rules that will guide the emergence of a diverse urban environment able to change over time. A series of design strategies—remediation parks, urban delta, adapted industry, and differentiated fabric—rethink the challenges of the site as opportunities for public benefit, creating a variegated landscape for built form to respond to. In contrast to a singular static master plan, this method favours multiple flexible strategies that can be deployed incrementally, breaking down the scale of development and allowing it to be realized by a wide variety of stakeholders. Through this approach the thesis seeks to enable the city to intentionally but subtly guide its urban landscape toward diversity and allow its citizens to participate in its continued adaptation.
RELATIONAL URBANISMMArch Thesis, 2013 | Advisor: Adrian Blackwell
1 Site & concept sketches | sketchup + psd2 River canal section | AutoCAD + psd3-6 Views of phases of transfromation | psd
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WESTDONLANDS
LESLIEVILLE
INNER HARBOUR
OUTER HARBOUR
LAKE ONTARIO
WASTE TREATMENTPLANT
ASHBRIDGESBAY
TOMMY THOMPSONPARK
SHIPPING CHANNEL
LAKE ONTARIO PARK
YACHT CLUB
OUTER HARBOURMARINA
THE HEARN
TURNINGBASIN
POWERGENERATION
DISTILLERYDISTRICT
EASTDONLANDS
SHERBOURNECOMMON
DON RIVERPARK
LOWER DONRIVER PARK
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DON RIVERMOUTH
CHERRY BEACH
ASHBRIDGESBAY PARK
WOODBINE PARK
WARDSISLAND
industrial to remain
public realm
adapted heritage
public green space
new development blocksLEGEND
RELATIONAL URBANISMMArch Thesis, 2013 | Advisor: Adrian Blackwell
1 Remediation Parks| illustrator2 Urban Delta | illustrator3 Adapted Industry | illustrator4 Differentiated Fabric | illustrator5 Composite Landscape framework | illustrator6-9 Views of each framework | photoshop
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Height Envelope
Parcelization
Adjacencies
Owner-built housing
Freehold Duplex Rowhouses
Publicly accessible shared courtyard
Retail
Rental Apartments
Coop Apartments
Individual Additions
Major Additions
Change of Use: residential to commercial and live-work units and retail at grade
RELATIONAL URBANISMMArch Thesis, 2013 | Advisor: Adrian Blackwell
1 Sample Variable Sections | CAD2 Adjacency Rules Matrix | illustrator3 Sample Block | sketchup + psd
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surface
1. interface between atmospheric andsubterranean pressures2. medium for gaining agency on otherwiseuncontrollable subterranean conditionsi.e. drought
drought
1. subterranean phenomenon characterizedby reduced precipitation and soil moisture,resulting from changing climatic conditions and exacerbated by incompatible land uses2. negatively impacts the quality of the soil and the flora and fauna that depend on it
changing climate
1. changing climatic patterns with consequenceson the parameters of the abiotic environment(i.e. temperatures, precipitation, soil moistureetc.) and subsequent effects on distribution of flora and fauna2. changing conditions are normal rather than the exception
AGENTS OF OPPORTUNITYLandscape Studio III, 2013 | GSD 1211 | Professors: Pierre Belanger & Rosetta Elkin | With Brad Howe & Marissa Angell
1 Land Cover + Drought Map |GIS + illustrator2 Definitions of Terms
Amidst a rapidly changing climate, ecological disasters are emerging as substantial threats to national security. This project shifts the emphasis from coastal resilience to the interior, focusing on the consequences of drought – a condition that has tremendous impact on the ground, causing widespread damage to vegetation and human health. Interpreting the ground surface as a product of subterranean and atmospheric forces, the project re-appropriates current technologies to capitalize on the adaptations of opportunistic vegetation, thereby gaining agency over the negative effects of drought. This strategy provokes unlikely future tools, methods, and collaborations, challenging cultural perceptions of military technologies and so-called invasive vegetation. Rather than fighting change, this approach repositions the perception of drought, shifting the response from a reactive to an adaptive approach, and enabling design by landscape architects.
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AGENTS OF OPPORTUNITYLandscape Studio III, 2013 | GSD 1211 | Professors: Pierre Belanger & Rosetta Elkin | With Brad Howe & Marissa Angell
1 Agents + Collaborations | rhino, illustrator2 Agricultural Scenario | rhino, illustrator, psd3 Forestry Scenario | rhino, illustrator, psd3 Military Base Scenario | rhino, illustrator, psd4 National Transect | rhino, GIS, illustratorDESIGN STUDIOS | PROFESSIONAL WORK | COMPETITIONS, INSTALLATIONS & ARTWORK
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THE UNITED STATES OF GUARANITheories Term Project, 2013 | DES 3241 | Professors: Pierre Belanger | with Nuith Morales & Wenling Li
1 Global Water Trade Map | GIS + illustrator2 World’s Largest Aquifers | illustrator
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An aquifer, hidden below ground, cannot be understood—or owned—until a map lifts up the earth above it and reveals it to the world. The map becomes an instrument of power to control the future of the resource. The Guarani Aquifer covers an area of 1.2 million square kilometers, and spans across Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. With a volume of nearly 40,000 cubic km, it has enough water to “supply the world’s population for 200 years”.
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The four countries refuse to renew the
World Bank’s license2009
World Bank takes over the mapping of the Guarani2002
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The four governments ask the World Bank
for a loan
2000
Study by universities of the four countries
halts due to lack of funding1997
L.M. Araújo draws
“The Giant Aquifer of the Mercosur”
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The United States opens a military base in Paraguay2005
Referendum in Uruguay declares access to water a basic
human right
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Paper mills feared to pollute the aquifer 2006
George Bush purchases 100,000 acres in Paraguay on top of
Guarani aquifer.
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Public protests in Cochabamba, Bolivia reclaim water rights
from Bechtel corporation.
2000
George Bush purchases 100,000 acres in Paraguay on top of
Guarani aquifer.
2006
The United States opens a military base in Paraguay2005
Paper mills feared to pollute the aquifer 2006
Referendum in Uruguay declares access to water a basic
human right
2004
Public protests in Cochabamba, Bolivia reclaim water rights
from Bechtel corporation.
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1992
The four countries refuse to renew the
World Bank’s license2009
World Bank takes over the mapping of the Guarani2002
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The four governments ask the World Bank
for a loan
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Study by universities of the four countries
halts due to lack of funding1997
L.M. Araújo draws
“The Giant Aquifer of the Mercosur”
1995
As legal definitions of water vary from country to country, the Guarani is especially at risk of exploitation and future political conflicts. Privatization has taken hold in many places in Chile and Argentina, but it has also been met with resistance, in Cochabamba, Bolivia and Uruguay. In order to rid the Guarani from internal conflict that hinders its protection, the aquifer and its watershed must be mapped as one region.This mapping project proposes a redrawing of jurisdictional boundaries with the aquifer as the central agency defining patterns of urbanization of the future Guarani region. This remapped aquifer economic zone (AEZ) can help avoid risks of contamination, over-exploitation, and political conflicts, by reorganizing surface boundaries along subterranean conditions that will shape the region’s future.
THE UNITED STATES OF GUARANITheories Term Project, 2013 | DES 3241 | Professors: Pierre Belanger | with Nuith Morales & Wenling Li
1 Proposed Guarani AEZ Map | GIS + illustrator2 Timeline of Guarani Mapping
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This master plan proposal re-imagines the larger archipelago of the Toronto Islands as an urban park system that connects existing recreational networks and reclaims the Toronto harbour as the city’s central public space, reawakening Toronto’s original identity as a harbor-city. A fixed inner urban edge with programmed nodes around the harbor concentrates the energy of the city within, allowing for a much more natural threshold between the city and Lake Ontario along the wild transient outer edge of the sandbar.
TORONTO: HARBOUR CITY3B Design Option Studio 2009 | ARCH 393 | Professor: Andrew Levitt
LEGEND
1 Pedestrian Bridge 2 Ward’s Market & Village3 Pier Boardwalk4 Lagoons5 Harbour Boardwalk6 Wild Piers7 Hanlan’s Point 8 Yacht Club Marina9 Island Airport10 Tunnel
1 Parti | illustrator2 Large Parks Scale Comparison | illustrator3 Site Plan | illustrator + photoshop4-7 Views | photoshop
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TORONTO: HARBOUR CITY3B Design Option Studio 2009 | ARCH 393 | Professor: Andrew Levitt
Phasing
Existing | Patchwork
- Succesfully operating airport- Seasonal ferry access - Dispersed private yacht clubs - Cut grass, high-maintanance landscaping-Fragmented Parkland - public / private Islands + destination beaches
Phase 1 | Infrastructure
- Reconfigured airport runways - Continuous harbour boardwalk with integrated stormwater management system - Martin Goodman Trail extends to island through pedestrian swing bridge- Urban Nodes established by new buildings: Hanlan’s point Hotel & Restaurant Centreville Natatorium & Urban Beach Ward’s Island Market
Phase 2 | Wilderness
- Yacht clubs consolidated in new marina- TTC LRT harbour line extends to Hanlan’s point via tunnel, and to Cherry Beach bridge- Island interior renaturalized with hiking / canoeing & cross country skiing trails- Breakwater piers extend out to catch sedimentation encouraging a transient shore- Native species reintroduced to restore wilderness and reduce maintenance- Existing buildings on wild edge relocated to urban edge to activate harbour boardwalk
Phase 3 | Appropriation
Nodes activated with new+moved buildings emerge as new cultural public city centres: - Airport | City gateway - new terminal -Hanlan’s point | Arts district - galleries, theatre -Centreville | Entertainment district: cafes, bars -Ward’s | Vacation retreat - bed&breakfast -Portlands | New sustainable neighbourhood
1 Phasing Diagrams | illustrator2 Boardwalk Section A | CAD + photoshop3 Boardwalk Section B | CAD + photoshop
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A reinterpretation of the traditional museum typology, this proposal for a museum of the Tiber River in Rome offers a public site that reinhabits and reframes the Tiber. A bold excavated cut in the riverbank, creates a series of public spaces, that reinhabit the space of the river, while allowing it to overtake them when it floods - leaving marks of its annual rise and fall on the surfaces of the cut ground. Old port infrastructures are highlighted as the artifacts of the permanent collection, while providing spaces within which to express more contemporary and transient interpretations of the river. A circulation sequence connects the artifacts into a musem experience that allows viewers to create their own interpretations of the Tiber in its historical and contemporary context. The design and drawing responsibilities were shared equally with my partner.
LEGEND1 Sublicio Bridge 2 Tiber Library3 Tiber gallery4Arsenale installation room5 Tiber workshops plaza 6 Outdoor theatre 7 Tiber pedestrian lookout bridge 8 River cruise to Ostia9 Old Roman Port
MUSEO TEVERE4A Design Studio 2010 | ARCH492 | Professor: Lorenzo Pignatti | with Catherine Westgate
1 Flooded Tiber view | Sketchup + photoshop 2 Site Plan | CAD + photoshop 3-6 Rendered Views | Sketchup + photoshop
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MUSEO TEVERE4A Design Studio 2010 | ARCH492 |Professor: Lorenzo Pignatti | with Catherine Westgate
1 River Context Map | Illustrator2 Workshop Section A | Sketchup+photoshop3 Site Section B | CAD + photoshop4 Site Section C | CAD + photoshop5 Site Section D | CAD + photoshop6-8 Model views | Card + stoneDESIGN STUDIOS | PROFESSIONAL WORK | COMPETITIONS, INSTALLATIONS & ARTWORK
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This multicultural language centre in a downtown site in Toronto, is made up of three stacked volumes - a public dining court, a school, and a library - interconnected by a continuous loop of circulation. Dynamic sectionally as well as planimetrically, the massing responds to the particularities of the individual spaces and addresses views from prominent streets. Floors tilted for lecture rooms create rooftop theatres, and facades oriented to face important streets frame a public square on Queen St. West.
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1 Public Square2 Gallery 3 Main lobby4 Bathrooms5 Cafe6 Food Service 7 Public Dining Space8 Outdoor theatre9 Seminar rooms10 Classroom 11 Admin offices12 Lecture rooms13 Library14 Reading rooms15 Green roof
1-3 Floor Plans: Ground, 2nd, 3rd | CAD 4 Exterior Plaza View | photoshop + model 5 Interior Dining Hall | photoshop+model 6 Sections: A, B, C | CAD 7 South Elevation | CAD
MULTICULTURAL LANGUAGE CENTRE1B Design Studio 2007 | ARCH 193 | Professor Lola Sheppard
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1 Morphological Parti | ink sketch 2-3 1:100 Model | card + plexi 4-5 1:50 Sectional Model | card + plexi
MULTICULTURAL LANGUAGE CENTRE1B Design Studio 2007 | ARCH 193 | Professor Lola Sheppard
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1. opaque surface + transparent contents
2. program organization: introverted
interactive
extroverted
3. set back for public square
4. cut & interconnected for circulation
5. twisted in plan for exposure to streets
6. raised in sectionfor theatres & screens
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DENSITY : URBAN HOUSING 2A Design Studio 2007 | ARCH 292 | Professor: Kathy Velikov
The interior design of an apartment unit to accomodate the complex schedules and needs of a large family with kids, a university student living at home, and a home office, based on a free plan and layering of screens. A custom, flexible system of screens that slide, fold and stack frames the spaces of the unit, creating variable layers of privacy while maintaining interconnection between the spaces and occupants.
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1 Master Bedroom2 Bathroom3 Kids’ Bedroom4 Loggia5 Student Bedroom6 Office7 Living room8 Kitchen9 Dining Room10 Entrance
1 Unit Plan | ink on mylar 2 Unit Section/Elevation | ink on mylar 3 Unit Axonometric + Screen system | ink 6 Facade Detail | CAD on vellum + pencil 4,5, 7 1:20 & 1:50 Models | basswood + plexi DESIGN STUDIOS | PROFESSIONAL WORK | COMPETITIONS, INSTALLATIONS & ARTWORK
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DENSITY : URBAN HOUSING2A Design Studio 2007 | ARCH 292 | Professor: Kathy Velikov
1 Site Section | CAD 2 Typical Floor Plan | CAD 3 Unit Types | CAD 4 1:500 Model | lasercut acrylic 5 Context Plan | CAD 6 Massing Parti | Sketchup
An urban housing complex of 4x density in an emerging downtown Toronto site, provides a wide range of living and work/studio spaces for families, couples, single professionals, and artists, arranged along the site to provide various levels of privacy and exposure to the urban street. Privacy and interconnection are moderated by layering, both at unit scale - through a system of moveable screens - and at building scale - with rows of single-loaded glazed units accross the site. The complex enhances the urbanity of the neighbourhood by providing a pedestrian lane lined with artists’ studios and a landscaped public space bounded by a public pool, restaurants and shops.
3 BDRM. + WORK 3 BDRM. 1 BDRM. + W 2BDRM. 1 BDRM. STUDIO
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1 Public Court2 Private Court3 Neighbourhood park 4 Artisan Alley 5 Retail6 Community Pool7 Lobby 8 Studio Apartments9 Mid-size Apartments10 Large Family Apartments
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STOA4B Comprehensive Design Studio 2011 | ARCH493 | Professor: Andrew Levitt
1 View from Park | Sketchup + photoshop2 Context Plan | CAD + photoshop3-6 Views | Sketchup + photoshop
This project takes on the archetypal courtyard form tocreate a contemporary space of spiritual contemplation.The presence of the courtyard as symbolic sacred space,connected to the sky and the earth, is felt all around thebuilding, in its programmed rooms oriented and opening onto it, as well as in thecirculation space around itwith its moments of pause andgathering. The experience of walking around the courtyard,finding a quiet place to rest looking onto the garden, and enjoying the still haven of the personal rooms overlooking the roof garden and treecanopies encourages personalphilosophical contemplationand meaningful conversationsin search of a deeperunderstanding of our placein the world and a closer connection with our ownspirituality.
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1 Community Classroom2 Admin3 Garden4 Celebration Room5 Contemplative courtyard6 Lobby7 Reflecting pool8 Public Park
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STOA4B Comprehensive Design Studio 2011 | ARCH493 | Professor: Andrew Levitt
1 Ground Floor Plan | CAD + photoshop2 Second Floor Plan | CAD + photoshop3 E-W Section | CAD + photoshop4 N-S Section | CAD + photoshop5 South Elevation | CAD + photoshop
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1 Community Classroom2 Kitchen3 Admin Offices4 Garden5 Celebration Room6 Courtyard Garden7 Entrance Loggia8 Lobby9 Washrooms10 Apartment11 Contemplation Rooms12 Library Hall 13 Reading Room14 Roof Garden
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STOA4B Comprehensive Design Studio 2011 | ARCH493 | Professor: Andrew Levitt
1 Structural Framing | Sketchup2 Contemplation Room |Sketchup+photoshop3-4 Street Elevations (E & N)5-7 1:200 & 1:50 models |card +wood + plexi
L2 - WOOD STUD WALLS
L2 - WOOD BEAMS & JOISTS
L2 - WOOD DECKING
L1 - STEEL + TIMBER BEAMS + TIMBER COLUMNS & JOISTS
L1 - WOOD DECKING
L1 - WOOD STUD WALLS + CONCRETE SHEAR WALLS AND
CORES (LATERAL SYSTEM)
L1 - SLAB ON GRADE + MASONRY
L1 - FOUNDATIONS + BASEMENT + CRAWLSPACE
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WINTER PREVAILING WIND FROM NORTHWEST
WINTER SOLSTICE SUN ANGLE ~ 23
FALL/SPRING EQUINOXSUN ANGLE ~ 46
SUMMER SOLSTICE SUN ANGLE ~ 70
YEAR ROUND WESTERLY WIND
SUMMER PREVAILING WIND FROM SOUTH
9am-12pm-3pm SHADOWS
HEATED WOOD DECK
STRUCTURE + MECHANICAL + RADIANT COOLING
ROOFING + CLADDING + DRAINAGE + SHADING
CLADDING + DRAINAGE, GREEN ROOF, COURTYARD &
BACK GARDEN
STRUCTURAL FRAMING + COORDINATED MECHANICAL &
RADIANT COOLING
CONCRETE SLAB + RADIANT LOOPS, FULLY & SEMI-HEATED SPACES
FOUNDATIONS + BASEMENT MECHANICAL, GEOTHERMAL, CISTERNS
INTEGRATED SYSTEMS
STOA4B Comprehensive Design Studio 2011 | ARCH493 | Professor: Andrew Levitt
1 Winter - Solar Gain | Sketchup2 Summer - Solar Shading | Sketchup3 Fall/Spring - Stormwater management4 Integrated Systems | CAD + photoshop5 Detailed Building Envelope | CAD
Sustainability
The building’s good energy performance is a result of a combination of passive heating, cooling & ventilation strategies that benefit from the natural conditioning effects of the courtyard, and a selection of high efficiency active systems that take advantage of renewable ground source energy. The building’s massing and orientation, centred around the courtyard, opening to the south and east and protected from the north and west optimize passive heating, cooling, and natural ventialtion, allowing the building to operate without the help of mechanical systems for most of the year. The well insulated thermal envelope (R30 walls, R40 roof, U1.1 Glazing), improved further by the insulative properties of the green roof and vines, ensures heat is not lost in the winter or gained in the summer, improving energy efficiency and making passive heating/cooling more effective.
Energy Performance 99 kwh/m2/yr
YEAR ROUND WESTERLY WIND
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EGLINTON WEST LRT STATION STREETSCAPEInternship work at regional Architects 2011-12 | Supervisor: Paul Kulig
1 Short term improvements | Rhino model + ps2 Long term development | Rhino model + ps3 Streetscape improvements | CAD + illustrator
Part of the new Light Rail Transit line along Eglinton Ave. currently being implemented in Toronto, the Eglinton West LRT station is a new transit hub at the intersection of the University subway line and the new LRT. The underground station and entrance pavilions are being designed by HDR architects, with regional Architects taking the role of Urban Design consultants to design the new streetscape improvements, as well as ensure the new transit station fits well within the existing community and facilitates future urban development in the area. My primary responsibility was to create and keep updated a digital Rhino model to develop rendered views of streetscape improvements and future potential development using the City’s Avenues & Midrise Development guidelines. As a full member of the project team my involvement on this project has also included assembling context analysis diagrams, coordinating CAD plans and developing rendered drawings for various City and Toronto Transit Commission presentations.
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One of three new venues being built the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, the new athletics stadium at York University will host games events in 2015 and later serve the University and community in legacy mode. As one of three competing teams shortlisted for the design by Infrastructure Ontario, regional Architects collaborated with Populous Architects (stadium building architects) and an extensive consultant team on the design of two new stadia and a velodrome. Regional Architects’ involvement was to provide context planning consultation and develop the landscape design. My responsibilities as a member of the project team have included iterative design of the landscape for three formal design presentations, AutoCAD and rendered drawings for biweekly submissions, as well as the detailed final drawing set, and Sketchup modeling and rendering of the landscape.
* building design by Populous
PAN AMERICAN GAMES YORK UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS STADIUMInternship work at regional Architects 2011-12 | Supervisor: Drew Sinclair
1 Aerial View| Sketchup+psd2 Site Plan | CAD + illustrator3 Rootball detail | CAD4 Tree grate detail | CAD5 Seat-wall detail | CAD
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OAKVILLE ARTS DISTRICTInternship work at Kuwabara Payne Mckenna Blumberg Architects 2010 | Supervisor: Thomas Payne
1 Digital Model View | Sketchup model2 Site Elevation | Sketchup model3 Site Section | Sketchup model4-6 Iterative models | foam + card
This was a speculative project initiated by one of the design partners of the firm, trying to envison the potential future development of a prominent site in downtown Oakville presently occupied by the Centre for the Arts. The project proposed adding a convention centre, retail, a new theatre and premium residential development to the site, making the area into a popular Arts district and centre of the city. I worked closely with the design principal developing his vision for the site through iterative foam massing models, and a digital sketchup models to test out materiality and patterning in more detail. I also developed early AutoCAD drawings for presentations and more detailed calculations of parking, unit counts, and density.
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This new infill project integrated existing History Department heritage houses into a new Arts building for the University of Ottawa. The project was in the early stages of conceptual design when I joined KPMB. The design architect had just sketched the first iteration of plans and elevations and was looking to test out and develop the ideas three dimensionally. My responsibility for this project was primarily to create a detailed sketchup model of the project and use it iteratively to develop the design. I worked closely with the design architect to develop the massing and interior spaces in more detail, and create rendered views of key spaces for client meetings and presentations. I also worked closely with the project team coordinating the model with CAD drawings and producing coordination diagrams for consultants during the design development phase.
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ARTInternship work at Kuwabara Payne Mckenna Blumberg Architects 2010 | Supervisors: Thomas Payne & Andrew Dyke
1 Digital Model Section | Sketchup2 Exterior perspective | Sketchup + photoshop3 Clerestory gallery | Sketchup + photoshop4 Lobby | Sketchup + photoshop5 Terrace | Sketchup + photoshop
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LANGLEY TOWN CENTRE COMMUNITY MASTER PLANInternship work at Folio Resort & Hotel Architecture 2010 | Supervisor: Ron Lea
1 Phasing Diagram| CAD + photoshop2-4 Mixed-use block type sections | sketchup
A community master plan project for a new mixed use development in Langley, British Columbia, this was one of my first large scale urban design and planning projects, and was a great learning opportunity for phased development and the planning process. My involvement included CAD plan options, phasing diagrams, and iterative modelling of mixed use block typologies. I was also involved in tabulating development areas , unit and parking counts for the various design options, and collecting precedents for client and city presentations.
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FLEMING COLLEGE SKILLED TRADES CENTREInternship work at Perkins + Will 2009 | Supervisor: Duff Balmer
1 Rendered Section N-S | CAD + photoshop2 Rendered Section E-W | CAD + photoshop3 1:200 Model | Wood/plexiglas 4 Floor plan | CAD5-6 Interior views | Sketchup model
This project was a new educational facility at the Fleming College campus in Peterborough, Ontario. I worked closely with the project architect starting from early conceptual design to the beginning of design development, exploring design iterations through physical massing models and a more detailed digital model. I also produced AutoCAD and rendered presentation drawings for client meetings, as well as a final basswood and plexiglass presentation model. Before the end of my coop term, I set up the AutoCAD working drawing package to be used for the design development phase of the project.
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This project is currently a finalist in the ULI Hines Urban Design and Real Estate Competition, which is focused this year on the redevelopment of an underused industrial area near downtown Nashville. Our project proposes Sulphur Dell Market District as a healthy lifestyle community that catalyzes the revitalization of the city of Nashville and is prototypical of resilient urbanism for similar mid-size American cities. Based on the idea that a healthy lifestyle starts with a healthy landscape, the proposal is based on a landscape framework of layered strategies of ecology, mobility and food. Drawing from the existing heritage and identity of the site, the framework creates the conditions for a diverse and resilient urban district that will continue to change and mature over time.
SULPHUR DELL MARKET DISTRICTULI Hines Urban Design Competition Finalist, 2014 | with PG Smit, Aliza Sovani, Mikhail Grinwald & Wajeha Qureshi
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1 Nashville Farmer’s Market | rhino + psd2 Site Plan | CAD + photoshop3 Flood Analysis | GIS + psd4 Demographics Analysis | GIS + psd5 Mobility Analysis | GIS + psd
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The project not only creates a series of iconic public places that will catalyze the redevelopment of the Sulphur Dell District, but also establishes typological strategies that can be applied beyond the site to the rest of the city as part of a larger scale vision for revitalizing Nashville. Sulphur Dell will be a destination for food, health, and iconic public open space, providing prime real estate for offices and institutions, and drawing suburban dwellers back to the city to experience the benefits of urban life. The district will be a prototype for resilient urbanism of America’s mid size cities, offering a diverse and adaptable urban environment that facilitates a healthy urban lifestyle.
SULPHUR DELL MARKET DISTRICTULI Hines Urban Design Competition Finalist, 2014 | with PG Smit, Aliza Sovani, Mikhail Grinwald & Wajeha Qureshi
1 Stormwater swale greenway | rhino + psd2 Aerial Perspective | rhino+ psd3 Phasing Diagrams | rhino+ illustrator
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CHORA3B Design Build Studio Installation, 2008 | ARCH 192 | Professors: Geoffrey Thun & Kathy Velikov | with 2B class
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A contemporary production of the story of of Daeadalos and the labyrinth, CHORA was a material, light, and sound experiential installation which led the audience through a sequence of spatial and performative conditions, allowing them to participate in the primal sensory experience of Daedalos’ journey, through his creative mind. The making of CHORA was an intensive two week design - build workshop meant to quickly generate and test out ideas at full scale. I led a group of 10 classmates as artistic director for the final scene, leading the conceptual development and taking an active role in the production of the artifacts and lighting sequence of the installation.From early light, material, and movement experiments in the photo studio, we quickly moved through design, production and site installation of our set, costume, and lighting, simultaneously developing the movement, lighting and sound sequences, with frequent presentations and discussions with our professors and peers.
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An experiential installation based on the instincts of a whale, soundScape was an experiment in spatial perception through sound and touch - through the simple elements of a blindfold, groundcover, and sound. The blindfold removes the primary sense at the entrance imparting vulnerability, slowness and sensitivity as a sensory shift takes place. The groundcover encourages the discovery and reliance on the tactile sense. The soundscape, made up of a variety of sounds of different characters, from different heights and orientations creates the sense of an audible boundary and perceptions of pressure and release, allowing the body to sense space without relying on the primary sense of sight.
soundSCAPE3B Studio Installation, 2009 | ARCH 393 | Professor: Andrew Levitt | with Catherine Westgate, Parisa Kohbodi, Jessie Towell
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I have been interested in photography for many years and continue to practice it avidly. Since taking photography courses in high school to learn to use a film SLR and develop film and prints in the darkroom, I have continued to practice both analog and digital photography throughout my university years and travels abroad.
1 Manhattan Bridge NYC, 2008 B&W Film Photography developed in darkroom
2 English bay Vancouver, 2010 Digital colour Photography
3 Havana Blue Havana, 2005 Digital Colour photography
4 Duomo shadow detail Parma, 2010 Digital Colour Photography
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VISUAL ARTS
I was a visual arts major in the Claude Watson Arts Program throughout highschool and produced artwork in a wide range of styles and media - from traditional drawing and painting techniques to conceptual contemporary art. My artwork was exhibited every year at the annual Claude Watson Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. I continue to draw and paint in my spare time since then.
1 PHOTOREALISM 2005 Acrylic on canvas
2 ABSTRACTION I 2006 Plaster + acrylic on canvas
3 CONCEPTUAL LINE PROJECT Timeline of a sequential National Geographic subscription, punctuated by the subscriber’s personal markmaking 2005 Scanner photography
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Most of my four month study term abroad in 2010 was spent travelling throughout Italy, and walking through the many neighbourhoods and streets of Rome. My observations are all recorded in two sketchbooks filled with vignettes of urban conditions and armatures of public space.
1 Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome
2 Arcades, Mantova
3 Rome roofscape from Gianicolo hill
4 Trastevere roofscape from my window
5 Rainy piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere from studio
TRAVEL SKETCHES Italy, 2010
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Thank you for viewing.Sonja VangjeliMLA I AP Candidate 2015Harvard Graduate School of Design
Email: [email protected]: 857-285-0564