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Oluwadabira Lana (Moses)

Current Address:607 Sandy Ridge DriveGlen Burnie, MD 21061

Mobile: (443) 694 7748

I am a student enrolled at the New Jersey institute of technology,currently in my third of the five year bachelors of architectureprogram. Throughout my three year experience in the practice, Ihave learnt the techniques necessary in producing technicaldrawings as well as how to adequately and professionally useprograms such as Adobe Illustrator, photoshop, Revit architecture,Auto cad and Rhino 3D. Apart from my software talents, I have alsoacquired techniques with the simple paper and pencil which comesto use when working on diagrams. Additional crafting skills in BIMand physical models allow me to excel past my school mates.

An internship at your firm would allow me to experience firsthand, realistic problems architects face and I would be able to apply what I learned to my own practice.

WORK EXPERIENCEJun 2012 - Jul 2012

Iron Worker -I assisted in the assortment of re-bar steel rod assemblies in the D.C. Clean Rivers Project

Aug 2012 - Present

Librarian Assistant -Shelved books left by students -Supervised librarian display show case

Dominion Contracting Co.

Van Houten Library, NJIT

Jun 2010 - Jul 2012

Exhibit Guide -Completed the certification course required to educate myself in specific topics ranging from general animal facts to environmental care -Engaged visitors in conservations about exhibit

National Aquarium in Baltimore

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libraryIron-boundSITESITE

This library design attempts to blend the Ironbound’s town scape with its landscape in a way such that the floor plates simply drape over programmatic spaces. In response to the multiple scales of visitor groups, planes are pulled and pushed to manipulate and differentiate between circulation spaces and programmatic spaces. The more open the space, the more comfortable the user is in the space. To emphasize the feelof community, an open plan with little to no full height partitions are used, leaving the visitors in a field of visual connections.

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Ground level Plan

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ELEVATION 2- Adams St.

ELEVATION 1- Walnut St.

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Revit Architecture

Revit Architecture

Grid Program Density Open Access

Courtyards Columns

India I. R. Education Center

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Mombasa, Gujarat in India

ClassroomResource

OfficesCanteen

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The placement of the school is located near the large body of water, oriented to make use of the natural evap-

orative cooling. A dense yet open composition of program allows for ease of circulation from program to program.To break away from the conventional treatment of inter-

ior and exterior, enclosures blend from solid wall to poro-us transitional spaces. This allows for the site to be expe-rienced as one big space rather than a series of individual

spaces.

Precast concrete roof

square framing

Rammed Earth Walls

Central Courtyard

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High tensile fabric screens

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ContinuousNewark

CENTRALIZED GATHERINGTHE VOID BECOMES THE MEETING SPACEFOR BOTH DEMOGRAPHICS. BOTH ARTIST AND VISITORS ARE GIVEN THE OPPORTU-NITY TO INTERACT VISUALLY AND PHYSICALLY.

SITESITE

ENTRANCE

The project depicted is located in downtown Newark New Jersey. Situated a few blocks from the Passaic river, one of the busiest in the entire town composed of both of housing and commercial spaces. The housing complex addresses the needs of groups such as musicians and artist of multiple disciplines, currently enrolled at the NJPAC (Performance Arts Center).The lot is treated as one solid mass with voids in areas of gathering. Voids correspond to the number of people occupying the circulation space. The bigger the space, the greater the volume of People occupying the space.

ElevationsElevations

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VISITORSRESIDENTSNEIGHBORS

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PERFORMANCE SPACE

COFFEE SHOP

ELEVATOR SHAFT

GALLERY SPACESTORAGE

CAFE

NIGHT CLUB

Revit Architecture

IMPLIED CIRCULATIONTHE SITE IS DIVIDED BY THE TRAIN TRACKS CREATING TWO SEPARATE CIRCULATION ROUTES.

NODESBOTH TRAIN STOPS

edge housingNewarkSITESITE

GATHERING

GROUND ENCLOSURE

AREAS RECEIVING THE MOST FOOTTRAFFIC DUE TOEXISTING CONTEXT.

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PlumbingElectrical/ Gas

Spatial Division Curtain WallPlacement

Staircase Balcony

As the city of Newark advances and grows, it struggles with keeping its modern aspects in balance with its roots. This “brick city’s” evolution is reflected in the design of the facades of this building. The first step we took was to look at the buildings of the area and abstract their vertically divided shape. Then we conformed the shape to the program and to the site’s wind and sun patterns. Next, the shape was split horizontally, based on the “strips” of the neighboring row houses. The materials were chosen to highlight the difficulties each aspect of Newark has connecting to each other. From the first side, one can only see brick, and as one walks past the facade, the whole view changes to glass. Although the glass and brick connect with the strip and they can both be seen together from the

Newark A new NewarkSITESITE

52 James St.

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