Katherine marcyan portfolio 2015

selected architectural projects by Katherine MarcyanM.Arch + B.S. Arch

2015

PORTFOLIO

web: katherinemarcyan.com email: [email protected]: 1 734 778 1991

Spectrum

Sushi.Barber.Bomber

The Claw_ a study in arena concert stage acoustics + acoustical panel design

429 W Van Buren

0 Net CO�Emissions

Construction

Plasticized_ the commodification of plastic waste in the Pacific

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Winter 2014In collaboration with Alina Granville & Vanessa ArgentoAdvised by Christina Hansen & Julia McMorough

The proposal of the Systems Studio is to address the design of a student housing complex located at the University of Mich-igan’s north campus. The site is about 25 acres and houses a minimum of 1,000 stu-dents with majors in Architecture, Art, Music and Engineering. Although all these majors study at the north campus facilities there is little to no interaction within the disciplines because the facilities are so segmented distant.

Focusing on collaborative spaces, diversity of living and social interactions, Spectrum embraces the great ideas that come from collaboration while revitalizing the social life of north campus. Featuring many amenities that go beyond just student housing Spec-trum strives to become the new social hub of north campus inviting only the current students to collaborate but also students who do not currently reside or study on north campus.

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Retail Shops

Cafés

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Fall 2013Advised by Jason Young

Taking cues from Gregory Ulmer’s theory of electracy (image literacy) and predictions of an image based culture, Sushi.Barber.Bomber. houses an array of seemingly unre-lated programs- sushi bar, barbershop, and a decommissioned Nighthawk stealth fight-er in an abandoned slaughterhouse located in the Eastern Market District of Detroit. The counter-intutitive process began with a series of photo collage scenes that informed the organization of the plan. Partitions of varying opacity (concrete, screens, mirrors, fish tanks) were used as the only barriers within the space. Futhermore the secondary, support spaces were developed first with the primary spaces unfolding as a result.

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GlassMirror2-Way MirrorFish TankLive Camera ScreenConcrete WallInternal Partition Materiality

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Winter 2015Advised by Moji Navvab

This project sought to investigate the acoustical properties of the stadium concert experience. The implementation and design of an acoustical panel system that can be attached to concert stages and venue ceil-ings to strategically re-direct, diffuse, and absorb sound waves thus enhancing sound quality for both performers and audiences alike was proposed. Emphasis was placed on studying the effects of crowd noise on performers, the amplification of sound through spatial means, and audio speaker location and specifications. The method of study entailed an analysis of the rock band, U2’s concert stage, “The Claw”, and Miami’s Sun Life Stadium as a base case for fur-ther acoustical alterations. The aim was to enhance the sound quality emitted from the stage via a series of geometrically calibrat-ed acoustic panels situated directly above the stage as well as panels attached to the stadium’s ceiling.

THE CLAWA STUDY IN ARENA CONCERT STAGE ACOUSTICS & ACOUS-TICAL PANEL DESIGN

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Current Sun Lire Stadium (no roof) Proposed roof addition

Sun Life StadiumSun Life Stadium home of the NFL team, the Miami Dolphins, and the University of Miami Hurricanes foot-ball team, hosted U2’s 360° on June 29th, 2011. Designed by Populous in 1987, the stadium has a current capacity of 75,540 and is an open-air venue. Renovations (designed by HOK Sports Facilities Group) set to be completed by 2016 propose to reduce the number of seats to 65,000 and add a large “open-air canopy” roof over the stadium. This Roof structure is an opportunity to enhance the acoustics of the stadium.

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Proposed roof addition Proposed diffuser panels

Reflection Phase Grating Diffuser Panel DesignThe 200, 24’x24’ reflection phase grating diffuser panels embedded into the underside of the roof were designed to be operable panels that can open and close to increase surface area and manipulate geometry. The three positions that were tested were the flat position (0° ), half way open (45° ), and the closed position (90°). This operability is important when designing for a multipurpose venue in which each event has very different, specific, acoustical needs. The manipulation of the panels’ geometry effects which sound waves (based on their frequency) will be deflected and thus diffused versus the frequencies that will be caught. The panels are designed with a low absorption coefficient to be as reflective as possible thus amplifying the sound within the stadium especially near the upper deck sections where sound distribution is most troublesome.

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EcotectThe software chosen to analyze the geometry manipulation of the acoustical panels was Eco-tect. This program allows for the simulation of sound waves visualized via a series of vectors that represent the direction of sound waves in the form of rays.

Projected Roof Sound Reflections SimulationAs predicted, the addition of a roof will provide another surface to reflect sound waves off of. This flat surface will aim sound waves in only one direction. While the reflected sound will increase the total SPL within the space, it will not provide the consistent coverage that is desired as some areas will receive more reflections than others amplifying the sound quality disparity that was already pres-ent within the venue.

Reflection Phase Grating Diffuser Panels Simula-tionThe further addition of the reflection phase grating diffuser panels allow for the greater range of ma-nipulation of sound reflections giving more control of the sound quality to the audio engineer. The simulation of the phase grating diffuser panels at a 45° position provides the most surface area for the sound to be reflected upon. The waves are caught in the panel and then diffused creating a consis-tance covrage and more even sound throughout the stadium. Due to the size and distance from the sound source, the panels unfortunately will only be able to enhance lower sound frequencies from the loud speaker system as the higher frequencies are too short to reach the panels. Higher frequencies from the upper deck may be able to reach the pan-els but the reflections would die off shortly after. The lower sound frequencies will provide a richer, full-bodied sound quality to the stadium.

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ITD GapInitial time-delay gap or ITDG describes the difference in arrival times between the first two direct sound arrivals. This information is useful in determining the proper placement of loudspeak-ers and the delay times needed in distributed loudspeaker systems.This is important to note as this project investigate both the audio system and architectural design of the venue. The Claw sound system produces a range of ITD gaps from 13ms to 0ms and an average ITD gap of 2.8ms. This is significantly shorter than the recommeded 12-25ms desired in concert halls. Thus the initial sound and the second wave are reaching the listener too close together in some regions of the audience area. The audience closest to the stage have an ITD gap ranging from 13-9ms (pink)while areas further back are recieving a gap of 6-1ms (gold-white).

D/R RatioD/R ratio shows the ratio of direct to reverberant sound in terms of dB. Zero dB indicates the sound levels are the same. Numbers less than 0 indicate the reverberant sound level is higher than the di-rect sound level. Numbers greater than 0 indicate the direct sound level is higher. The average (ma-roon) direct sound is greater than the reverberant sound at frequencies from 0 to just past 4,000 HZ. The lowest D/R ratio (green) falls deep within negative values and thus the reflected sound is higher than the direct sound in some regions of the stadium.

Sound Pressure LevelSum or total SPL is the sum of the direct and reverberant sound energy in dB. In other words, it is the total sound level. There is a fairly consistent decline of SPL as the frequencies increase. This is due to the fact that the higher frequencies have shorter wave lengths and thus die faster than the lower frequencies with longer wave lengths.

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Reflected phase grating diffuser affects reflected SPLThe SPL of crowd noise as measured in current condition was measured in EASE as100 dBA. The SPL crowd noise with canopy as designed is predicted at114-120 dBA based on the EASE simulations. Since EASE does not disclose the reflected component of the SPL only the direct and total SPL, the reflected component was produced by the difference of the total and direct SPL. Three scenarios were tested, one the current condition (without roof), two the proposed (with roof), and three the proposed roof with diffus-er panels. The differences between three is the direct contribution of the sound waves reflected from the roof and then off the panels. The difference between roof and no roof is minimal but the integration of the reflected phase grating diffusers almost doubles the amount of reflected sound.

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Reverberation TimeOften described as liveliness, reverberation time is a measurement of how fast the sound decays so as not to have echoes or interference. For a larger concert hall a good rever-beration time could range between 4-1.75 seconds. The following is Sabine’s formula for reverberation time:T60= (0.5V)/ Σ(A*α)Where V is the room volume. A is the surface area of the walls, floor, and ceiling, and α is the absorption coefficient of the material of the surfaces.

The chart compares the reverberation time at frequencies ranging from 100-10,000HZ for the simulations that were ran in EASE. Option A represents the simulation with the pro-posed roof and The Claw speakers and house sound system. Option B represents the sim-ulation with the proposed roof and house (stadium) speakers only. The difference between options A and B is represented with Delta A-B. Option C represents the simulation without the proposed roof and the current speaker system and the difference between the pro-posed renovations and current stadium is represented with Delta B-C. Based on the graph option A has the highest db levels as is to be expected having the most speakers and a roof to reflect off of while option C has the lowest db level as it is without a roof. Both options A and B are well within the desired range of 4-1.75db while option C is is slightly too low. Del-ta A-B can also be considered the situation where only The Claw sound system is in play just as it was during the 360° Tour. This sound system arrangement produces a reverber-ation range well below the desired 4-1.75ms peaking only around 0.75ms and dropping to 0ms. Based off of the EASE simulations the tour could have a sound quality closer to what would be heard in a concert hall if the house sound system was utilized.

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Audience Sound ExposureThe above chart depicts the sound intensity levels perceived by the audience over a period of (7200 s) or the duration of a two hour concert. For most of the period the intensity level is within the range of 80-100dB yet ever so often there is s spike and the intensity reaches around 110dB. This is the sound overexposure that was discussed in previously which has the potential to become damaging to the ear. Like the doctors’ concert experiment the audience is being exposed to more than the acceptable amount of noise during over the course of the concert as any long term exposure to sound sustained over 90-95dB can result in hearing loss.

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Perceived Loudness“Loudness,” is a subjective term definded as the perceptual experience approximately correlated with that physical intensity. In acoustics, a unit of loudness “sone” is defined as the loudness of a 1000 Hz tone 40 dB above threshold. Loudness depends upon both the SPL and the duration of exposure to the sound. Loudness also has to consider the ear’s response to increasing sound intensity in powers of ten. The chart shows the perceived loudness versus the loudness level for Sun Life Stadium during a duration of an hour. About half of perceived loudness is under the 90dB limit yet there are many spikes where the loudness reaches over 150dBs, about 45dBs over the average sound level for rock concerts.

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Fall 2012Advised by Heidi Beebe

429 W Van Buren located on the banks of the Chicago River was conceived as not only a multi-use facility (office space, parking, retail, restaurant, and residential) but also as a platform on which to explore the concept of water conservation. The ambiguity of “ground”- a theme prevalent in Chicago- is achieved through the integration of a mas-sive green roof which morphs earth into the architecture of the building. River water is funneled into the building and pumped up to the roof garden to be naturally filtered. Retail and restauraunt spaces are located sub-street level to connect to the river as well as integrate the “L” track that passes through the building.

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Congress Parkway

W Adams St

Willis Tower

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West Loop Neighborhood, Chicago

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Fall 2013In collaboration with Solomon TuckerAdvised by Lars Junghans

The purpose of the 0 Net Emissions course is to use computer analysis to test and then implement current sustainable practices in the creation of a zero net CO� emissions residence. Building systems and envelops were tested using Design Builder software while energy costs and CO� emissions were projected based off of current prices and average emission percentages. Located on Long Beach, CA, this beach house is a carbon neutral structure that generates its own energy. The unique double roof design allows for natural ventilation while keep-ing the house safe from the elements. Air passes beneath the raised roof and down through the LouvreTec Aluminum Spiral Pivot System (embedded into the second roof) and into the center of the residence. Using sustainable building systems such as geo-exchange heat pump, photo voltaic, natural ventilation, and solar warm water heater, the beach house emits as little as 5.11 kgCO�/ft² per year while generating over 160 kWh/ ft² of clean electricity reduc-ing CO� emissions by over 330 kg CO�/ft² per year- more than 50x the amount of CO� it emits.

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Second LevelBed Room 1Bath Room Bed Room 2Master Bed RoomMaster Bath Room

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Pre-Cast Insulated Concrete 1’-0”

LouvreTec: aluminum Spiral Pivot System6” medium weight concrete

Pre-Cast Concrete Structural Column 1’-0”

Concrete Block w/ Pearlite


Pre-Cast Concrete Floor

Dbl LoE (e2=1) CLR 6mm/3mm Argon filled

Concrete Piles


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LouvreTec: aluminum Spiral Pivot System6” medium weight concrete

Pre-Cast Concrete Structural Column 1’-0”

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Concrete Piles






Photovoltaic

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CO� emission reduction due to on site energy harvesting via photovoltaics: 337.82 kgCO�/ft²year

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Artificial lighting 4.54

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Photovoltaics On Site Harvesting Calculations

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163.14 kWh/ft²

2,394 ft²

2,612 kWh/m² year

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Solar Warm Water Collection Area 58.05 ft²

Water Storage 98.28 gallons

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3/8” UNDERLAY

FLOOR JOISTS

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7”X12” LAMINATED BEAM


2”X2” WOODEN SHADING DEVICE

WOODEN FASCIA PANEL

WOODEN WINDOW FRAME

RIGID INSULATION

ROOFING BALLAST

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Winter 2013In collaboration with Nathan FritzAdvised by Lars Graebner

Based on the Two-Family House (1989, Pul-lach, Germany) by Thomas Herzog, Michael Streib, and Michael Volz, this multi- use building is a modern take on Alpine con-struction methods.The heavy timber con-struction is reminiscent of the Alpine timber framed barn while keeping inaccordance with Herzog’s decision to break away from the traditional use of logs and solid timber beams in favor of 150mm, glued, laminated, wood columns in order to economize mate-rial and take advantage of industrial con-struction options. The structural grid as well as the integration of steel tie cross bracing resulted from the choice of laminated wood for the materiality of the building’s columns.

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FLOOR JOISTS

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2”X2” WOODEN SHADING DEVICE

WOODEN FASCIA PANEL

WOODEN WINDOW FRAME

RIGID INSULATION

ROOFING BALLAST

SMALL COLUMN CONNECTION LARGE COLUMN CONNECTION

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5 meters1 2 3 40South Elevation Section A-A

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1 External wall, 200mm: 18 x 290 mm wood-cement particleboard, 300mm cover width, with stone-grey acrylic paint finish 14 x 120 mm strips glued to external cladding 150 mm thermal insulation vapour barrier18 mm wood-cement particle board

2 Glulam internal column, 150 x 150 mm

3 Glulam external column, 60 x 150 mm

4 Glulam stud, 40 x 150 mm

5 Glulam edge beam, 60 x 180 mm

6 Glulam beam, 100 x 400 mm 7 Ventilation flap with insect screen

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10 Heat storage wall: transparent thermal insulation elemen: no-tinted glass capillary polycarbonate glass with linear horizontal structure, 100 mm precast concrete unit, outer face painted black polyethylene vapour barrier 18 mm wood-cement particle board

11 Cantilever suppor, compund section with plywood sides

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PLASTI-CIZEDThe Commodification of Plastic Waste in the Pacific

M.Arch Thesis, Winter 2015Advised by Kathy Velikov

Coined by Timothy Morton as, “entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas of what a thing is in the first place,” hyperobjects have existed long before the anthro-pocene and will continue to exist long after. None the less humans have managed to have a profound impact on the creation of many hyperobjects.This thesis positions itself where two hyperobjects collide by promoting the collection of plastic waste, trans-formation of it into petroleum, and redistribution of the petroleum to worldwide markets for economic gains. With this new source of revenue island states under the threat of inundation can reappropriate existing technologies as well as finance research to further developments to build a floating nation. The thesis theorizes that by leveraging rather than seeking to contain hyperobjects of the Pacific, a new aquatic urbanism will emerge. The project concerns itself with the geopolitics of waste within the realm of the Pacific by proposing the creation of a com-mittee of the United Nations (the Inundated Island Nation Coalition) to internationally represent these island states while manifesting itself in the form of a trading outpost and plastic refinery sited within the Northeast and South Pacific Gyres while projecting expansion into other regions of the world.

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Setting the StageEvery hour humans discard an estimated 2.5 million plastic containers into the world’s oceans where given time, the majority is sucked into the vortex that is the Northeast Pacific Gyre, amass-ing into an amorphous “island” of waste known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Researchers believe the area of this patch to be twice the size of Texas and at a depth of 300 meters. The gyre lies in international waters far beyond the territori-al jurisdiction of any one nation. Humans created it yet humans refuse to lay claim over it. It is undesirable waste yet what if this waste suddenly became a valuable resource? Simultaneously 2,000 NM south of the gyre island nations such as Kiribati and Tuvalu brace themselves for the inev-itable inundation of their homeland as rising sea levels threaten to sink the atolls. Some experts predict complete submersion by the end of the century. Armed with little to no economic capital the inhabitants will be the first climate change refugees of this century.

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The NetworkPlastic is a byproduct of petroleum extraction. After it is refined into plastic and transformed into a product (mainly single use containers) it makes its way to the consumer whom inevitably disposes of it. whether it is recycled or placed in the trash the vast majority of plastic in the United States ends up in a landfill where it is washed downstream into the water ways and makes its way into the ocean. Once in the ocean the currents carry the plastic across hundreds of thousands of miles to distant shores or to the center of the gyres. This process takes years to decades depending on where the objects enter the ocean. For example Japanese items from the tsunami of 2011 reached US shores as early as 2013 riding the strong Kuroshio Current while other items will remain in the gyre or sink the bottom of the ocean where researchers believe up to 70% of the ocean’s plastic waste resides. 80% of this waste is land base where naval vessels only account for 20% of ocean pollution. Once in the water plastic photo degrades breaking down into microplastics while releasing toxins into the ocean and absorbing others. Many sea creatures are affected by the presences of plastic, causing phys-ical damage such as sea turtles getting caught in ghost nets (tangled plastic nets) and fish and albatross eating plastic. Because fish have been contaminated by plastic it is virtually impossible for humans to eat fish from seas and even fresh water lakes without digesting plastic themselves. The process of transforming the ocean’s plastic into petroleum has been recently tested by a non-profit research group called the ocean cleanup project with positive results. The proposed plastic network integrates itself within this already vast life cycle of plastic. The goal is to collect the plastic in the Pacific, chemically transform it into petroleum, and then redistribute it into the world market.

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The Narritive

The year is 2020, the location, 38N-145W or the center of the Northeast Pacific Gyre. After the success of the Ocean Cleanup Project many mega corporations such as Royal Dutch Shell and British Petroleum, and Exxon Mobil decide to abandon the massive offshore oil rigs in favor of the smaller, less expensive plastic collection stations. The Pacific has now become a plastic waste field as these stations spring up tens of nautical miles apart harvesting the now precious plastic and storing it until it can be shipped to the back to shore for refinement. The stations require very little maintenance and as a result workers only visit the site once every 45 days to empty the station’s holding cistern. Meanwhile the Inundated Island Nation Coalition has man-aged to seize an abandon oil platform and relocate it to the Northeast Pacific Gyre. This newly renovated plastic refinery serves as a trading post and colony for the many plastic extraction workers (or scavengers as the oil companies call them). The Inundated Island Coalition pays the workers based on commission, refines the plastic into petroleum, and then ships it out on freights to the very nations that discarded the plastic in the first place. With the profits split be-tween the Inundated Island Nations the funds have supported research into aquatic infrastruc-ture that will withstand the inundation of the islands while giving these nations financial indepen-dence not seen since before the 19th century.

Kiribati 2100

Rain watercollection storage cells

Footprint of house

PLATFORMOPTIONS

FLOATATIONOPTIONS

Plastic bottles Barge platform

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Patio Yard

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Fully private Private with open public walkways

Private upper levels public lower level

Private with enclosed public walkway

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The Inundation of Kiribati

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education

the university of michigan - ann arbor, MItaubman college of architecture + urban planning

master of architecturebachelor of science in architecture

09.2013-05.201509.2009-05.2013

flat rock community high schoolflat rock, MI

high school diplomasumma cum laude + valedictorian

09.2005-05.2009

mazada foundation scholarship youth for understanding foreign exchange programforeign exchange student in iwakuni-shi, yamaguchi, JP + at-tended sanyo jorshi high school in hiroshima, JP

academic awards

university dean’s listuniversity of michigan college of LS&Afor maintaining a 3.5 + GPA

06.2008-07.2008

exhibition: SPREEtaubman college winter 2013 student shownominated for the architecture student show

12.2009-05.2011

03.2013

computing literacy

adobe photoshopadobe illustratoradobe indesign

arcmapauto CADauto CAD architectural

design builderEASEecotect

work experincegraduate student research assistantthe university of michigan - ann arbor, MIassisted associate professor of architecture, mojtaba navvabtasks include stadium + concert hall 3D modeling, computer acoustic analysis + simulations, diffuser + absorption panel design, audio system selection + speaker design

06.2014-05.2015

09.2012-05.2013 student research assistantthe university of michigan - ann arbor, MIassisted associate professor of architecture, jason youngtasks include research of truck stops +highway urbanism as a means of spatial + informational networking, arcgis mapping of 900+ truck stops, site plan mapping of truck stops + highway interchanges

intern architectA3C- ann arbor, MItasks include construction documentation + LEED GA class

intern architecthobbs + black - ann arbor, MItasks include construction documentation, site visits

intern CAD draftsmanAMSCO wear products inc. - goshen, NYtasks include production of mechanical shop drawings that were used for a ‘mega shredder’ at a scrap processing plant in newark, NJ

06.2013-08.2013

03.2013

06.2007-07.2007

eQUESTlightscapemicrosoft office

revitrhinoceros3D studio max

sketch upsolidworkssolidedge

vray (for rhino)

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