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michelleleotaud…design in process
michelleleotaud…design in process
Table of Contents
Resume
Selection of Projects
Sustainable Projects
The Trullo Transitions
A Catapult for positive integration
Techniques workshop
Retail Projects
Green Express
Kiss
Optique
Commercial Projects
One Woodbrook Place
Renaissance
Agostini Insurance Brokers
Residential Projects
Janoura Residence
Singh: Moka, Trinidad
Singh: Apes Hill, Barbados
Arrindel Residence
Contact
68 Ellerslie Park,
St. Clair, Trinidad W.I.
Resume
EDUCATION 2012-2013 Institute of European Design Turin, Italy Masters of Sustainable Architecture 1997 – 2001 Florida International University, Miami, FL Bachelor of Design Major: Architecture
1996 – 1997 Lehigh University Bethlehem Pennsylvania Major: Engineering 1989 – 1996 St. Joseph’s Convent Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
EMPLOYMENT March 2009 Present Architect, OBMI Ltd. 28 Stone St. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad Responsible for managing consultancy team
for production of documentation from sche-matic stage through construction documenta-tion. Also highly responsible for conceptual design, and site supervision, specifically of commercial and retail architecture, and interior design. Currently a strong emphasis on coordi-nation, and project management in mixed use schemes and high rise buildings.
April 2007 – March 2009 Architect, TMC Architects Ltd., 122 St. Vincent St. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Responsible for all planning, design and site supervision of commercial and retail archi-tecture, interior design and coordination, and project management.
April 2003 – April 2007 Interior Architect, HCP Architects Ltd., 27 Cipriani, Blvd., Port-of-Spain, Trinidad Responsible for all design and site supervi-
sion of commercial interior architecture, some residential architecture and interior design, project management, and imaging and graphic rejuvenation of HCP Architects Ltd.
July 2002 – February 2003 Interior Designer, Ethan Allen, Miami, Florida, U.S.A. Responsible for interior design for residential
and hotel projects. Also responsible for furni-ture and accessory sales and some product marketing.
August 1999 – February 2002 Office and Graphic Assistant F.I.U. Photography & Graphics University Park Tamiami Trail, Miami, Florida, U.S.A. Responsible for assisting graphic designers
with Photoshop, and Powerpoint presenta-tions, such as CD covers, posters, T-shirt designs, logos, and presentation layouts. Also responsible for assisting office manager with accounts payable and accounts receivable, upkeep of databases, and other clerical duties.
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PROFESSIONAL INTEREST An Architectural design aesthetic that merges both modern de-
sign with tropical architecture at the same time being aware and responsible of the site’s environment and sustainability.
RECENT PROJECTS
The Renaissance at ShorelandsShorelands, Trinidad • Two20storeywaterfrontresidentialtowers,accommodating
74 luxury apartments, 12, 2 bedroom, 24, 3 bedroom and 28, 4 bedroom residences above a 3 storey podium accommo-dating extensive amenities and secured parking. Each tower is crowned with four spacious penthouses and 2 luxury resi-dences comprising of 360 degree views and rooftop pools.
One Woodbrook Place187 Tragarete Rd., Trinidad • 2Ms.f.Multi-useprojectconsistingof421residentialapart-
ments, and 200,000 sf of retail and commercial space. This unique development is the first in the region.
Trincity MallTrincity, Trinidad • ThelargestretailmallintheCaribbean.
Architectural and Interior Design services of: • Severalluxuryhighriseapartments,OWP • SinglefamilyResidence,ApesHill,Barbados • SinglefamilyResidence,68EllersliePark,Maraval • SinglefamilyResidence,17EllersliePark,Maraval • SinglefamilyResidence,TheOrchardatMoka • SingleFamilyResidence,NewburyHill,Glencoe • ResidenceOutdoorEntertainmentArea,GoodwoodPark.
Interior remodeling and outfitting of: • KISSBakingCompanyRebrandingMallOutlets • GreenExpress,EnvironmentallyFriendlyCleaners • OPTIQUE,AFerreiraOpticalBoutique,WestMall • BmobileOutlets,FrederickSt.,HenrySt.&CharlotteSt. • LaughlinandDeGannesToolStore,SanFernando • AgostiniInsuranceBrokersLtd.,HenrySt. • TropicalPower,Chaguanas • TSTTMobileStores(conceptualdesign)
COMPUTER SKILLS Fluent in Vectorworks 12.0, Microsoft Office Applications, Adobe
Photoshop, and AutoCAD. Working knowledge of Sketch-up, Revit Autodesk 2009, Ecotech, and Design Builder.
LANGUAGES Fluent in English, basic understanding of Spanish
ACHIEVEMENTS Golden Key Honor Society Member Who’s who in American Colleges 2000 Member National Women’s Hockey Team Player of the Year TTHB 2005 and 2011
PUBLICATIONS Spring 2001 Key Biscayne Fire Department. The booklet con-
sisted of projects designed by myself and my Design 5 class-mates for the Key Biscayne Fire Department’s (Miami, FL) new site. It served as a prototype and reference for other Fire Depart-ment buildings throughout the region.
REFERENCES Excellent references provided upon request
Sustainable Design, GREEN Architecture, LEED, Environmentally friendly; these are all words that seem to be at the forefront of all recent topics be it social, political, or cultural. It’s not just a fad it’s become reality and designers must do their part to defuse the environmental crisis.
I am an architect with an affinity towards modern design but with a tropical heart. Being from the Caribbean beauty in our
surroundings is as natural as breathing. However our society is not yet developed to realize that we need to address our en-
vironmental problems now, before it makes a greater impact on our ecology. I would like to obtain my degree in sustainable
architecture because I want to develop a more ambitious solution to defusing our environmental problems on a more global
stage and help my compatriots live more sustainably as individuals. I would like to equip myself with the tools necessary for
educating my clients to have a better understanding of their responsibility to the environment as developers.
Sustainable Design
A Boutique Hotel and Spa , Puglia Italy
The Trullo is a Bold noticeable Architecture, rather than competing with it we chose to use the existing fea-tures to develop a contemporary interpretation. The main economic function of this area is tourism. Thus the SPA and Boutique hotel will provide a unique and necessary destination.
The existing stone walls became the catalyst for the extension and the modules.
By extruding, pushing and pulling these elements we created definitive boundaries for our spaces.
The infill walls then became lighter elements to bal-ance these massive walls allowing natural light to filter
through the spaces.
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The Environmental Section
A School in Gaza City, Gaza
Gaza City, as we are aware has been a war torn zone
for many years. The school provides a change of pace
for the children that will attend. It provides protection as
suggested by a series of elements, the boundary wall,
the building itself, the bamboo screens all surrounding
the inner courtyard.
Once you pass through the main entry you leave the
troubled world behind symbolized by the water, wash-
ing away the worries of your daily life and entering into
a safe space.
The community can also use the covered courtyard or
the integration gardens. These become spaces of in-
teraction, of calmness, of leisure, and of learning.
The school becomes a Catapult to the future, a cata-
pult for positive integration…
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Environmental Strategies :- Passive Cooling using prevailing windsStorm Water HarvestingLocal Material UseSun Shading as a cultural architectural languagePlanning for multi use for education at large
Unconventional Construction Methods.
Torino, Italy
This workshop was lead by an Italian architectural firm,
ARCO. They have a strong desire to remind the indus-
try that we can get back to basics and that this is not
only sustainable economically and socially but also en-
vironmentally.
Workshop
Sustainability Workshop 1
Traditional materials making a comeback…earthbags and bales of hay create large thermal mass walls
1. Buckets are filled with earth
2. Old Feed bags are filled and packed with earth
3. After 3 layers of earthbags a wooden structure is placed to stabilize structure
4. The wooden structure is filled with clay pellets to absorb moisture.
5. After all the wood is in place straw layers are placed on top as though laying bricks and they are strapped down.
6. A mixture of hay and plaster is created and hand applied to the bales.
7. The roof structure is applied
8. A second layer of straw mixtures is applied
Sustainability Workshop 2
1. Bottles of water with square section are collected and filled with Sand2. Before putting the second layer a layer of cement is placed to fix bottles inplace3. This process is repeated untilldesired height of wall is achieved.4. After putting all the layers a line of twine is wrapped around each of the bottle caps for stability.5. Another layer of cement is trowelled on and the bottle tops and bottoms are cleaned so that the wall has a sense of transparency.6. Allow to set and bench is complete.
Use of Recycled Materials …old water bottles create fixed furniture
Throughout the past few years, I have worked on two of the largest multi-use schemes in the region. I have helped provide the creative and technical
foundation for these landmark projects.
The success of these projects can be attributed to my team’s integrity, dedication and loyalty to our clients.
It is my belief in order to have a successful project you must have a team of experienced and innovative professionals, passionate and hardworking
in their endeavors.
Individually and collectively, you must be committed to helping your client both with the tangible and the intangible.
Commercial Design
Mixed Use Development
Residential Towers
Commercial
Retail
7 Acres
One Woodbrook Place is a mixed use development consisting
of 431 residential apartments housed in three towers of 25,18
and 16 storey’s respectively. There are four podium apartment
buildings as well consisting of 5 stories each.
The developments also houses 100,000 s.f. of commercial
space and 100,000 s.f. of offi ce space, in multi-storey buildings
engaging Port-of-Spain’s newest park.
Along with green building concepts, OWP is designed in accor-
dance with New Urbanist Principles; Live Work and Play and is
situated within urban landscaping. It is the fi rst of its kind in the
region providing a community within a community, connecting
people on a larger level.
One Woodbrook Place
OWPResidential Interiors
Ascend the skyline of Port of Spain and you will enter into a space perched within the sunset, hanging over the horizon and allowing vistas over layers of history and cultural intrigue… a place of luxury and wonderment…. and you will know that you have arrived.
PenthouseLower Floor PlanLIVING
PenthouseUpper Floor PlanSLEEPING
OWPExterior
2 Floors ofBasementParking
The Residential ExperienceWORKLIVEPLAY
High End Residential
Residential Towers
50,000 s.m.
The Renaissance at Shorelands is an oceanfront, luxury resi-
dential development consisting of two 20-storey towers on
50,000 sm.
Each of the Towers has four penthouses, each crowned with
three storey rooftop residences. The community elements for
this project include a grand lobby, concierge and valet service,
an infi nity pool, gym, spa and clubroom.
The renaissance at Shorelands is equipped with SMART build-
ing technology and a Berthing Marina.
The Renaissanceat Shorelands
The Renaissance at Shorelands
This 19,000 s.f. project involved a Corporate reimaging, includ-
ing both the exterior façade and interior remodeling. The build-
ing street front was updated simply with alucobond paneling
and an enhancement of the entry portal. The interior challeng-
es were to create a more customer oriented environment and
move to a multi service platform of insurance products. This
included both customer interface spaces as well as employee
workspace.
Agostini InsuranceBrokers
Agostini Insurance Brokers
Imagine a space where customers are infl uenced to shop!Retail design is a creative art in which combines many different design ideas together of which it’s primary purpose is to stock and sell products to the
consumers. The spaces must be designed in a way that makes a fun and trouble free shopping experience for the consumer.
Imagine a space where employees want to work! The focus is to maximize your fi nancial performance with innovative and fi nancially effective branding strategies, going beyond store design by
infl uencing the employees to develop their customer service skills and produce results with measurable returns on your investment.
Imagine a space that is technologically savvy!Having a point of sale system that provides a quick and effi cient checkout is always a plus for the consumer. Introducing new technology for the
security system helps prevent a lot of theft. And by also introducing new electronic games starts sending the message that the brand is keeping
current and understands its customers.
Imagine a space that encourages customers to buy!The space must be specially made to your product. Retail spaces must also be designed to bring people to the retail space to shop. Designs are
meant to be attractive to encourage you to at least look around at the products on sale.
Imagine that space is YOURS!!
Retail Design
An environmentally friendly dry cleaners.
A radically different Dry Cleaner outlet.
The ecologically rooted process founded in 1999 presents to
Trinidad the world’s largest brand of environmentally friendly dry
cleaning. This award winning system introduces a new level of
environmental sensitivity to the dry cleaning sector of Trinidad
and Tobago. Of specifi c concern to this proposal was the zone
allocated to the customer and front counter services. The cre-
ation of an interior environment celebrating not only the state of
the art processes and equipment but presenting visual and tac-
tile stimuli that roots the customer in the environmentally driven
philosophy behind the operation. Space planning to achieve er-
gonomic effi ciency and a fl uid capacity to change imagery were
incorporated. Materials were selected from a green perspective
coupled with energy effi cient lighting systems. This relatively in-
timate environment synced with the environmental processes
have set the context for repeat business and success.
Green Express
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The Falls at Westmall, Westmoorings, Trinidad
Retail Outlet; Optometrist Facility and
Fashion Eyewear Showroom
Designed as an upscale luxury optometrist facility at The Falls
at Westmall, the resulting store is a contemporary blend of tex-
ture and colour. Using innovative and interesting lighting with
retail display elements, the store becomes a new approach to
optometry creating a unique environment for the client. The use
of glossy wood fi nishes and tensile fabrics blends well with the
trendy fashion eyewear on display. This modern design com-
bines an inspired artistic atmosphere together with the prima-
ry purpose to stock and sell products to the consumers. The
space developed ultimately makes a fun and trouble free shop-
ping experience for the consumer.
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Retail Outlet for Cakes and other Treats
Gulf city Mall, Trinidad
This outlet served as a prototype store of approx 565 s.f.
located in one of the major malls in Trinidad, Gulf City Mall. It is
modern and edgy yet retaining the elegance and stature of the
already well established brand of Kiss Baking products.
The marketing concept was to have the Cafe itself be attractive
to all types of customers both existing and new. It stands out
amongst the other shop displays but compliments the cakes
and desserts without overpowering them. The use of imagery,
signage, colour and display is a great recipe for re branding Kiss
Desserts and in bringing this product into the current trend and
taking it forward.
These new stores will not only retain the large clientele base
that Kiss already has but also attract new customers making
the brand far reaching, because as the saying goes everybody
needs a kiss!
Kiss Desserts
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A home occupies special places in our hearts and minds. Conjures up unique feelings and mental images. For those of us in the business of creating new residential spaces – a setting for new perspectives,
discoveries and experiences –
there is no greater reward than crafting a place that is authentic, unique and the blank canvas for making beautiful memories.
As an architect, I recognize that I have an opportunity, or better yet, a responsibility to preserve and enhance the very essence of a site. My success is
based on the fundamental principle of embracing the very culture, and history specifi c place, combined with the lifestyle needs of my clients, allowing
these resources to dictate the design path taken.
Forming a house into a home!
Residential Design
Ellerslie Park, St. Clair, Trinidad
A single family luxury residence.
4000 s.f.
With 3 ensuite spacious bedrooms, this modern home is
equipped with all the luxurious spaces one might expect in their
dream home. The house also holds a music room, a library, a
fi ve car garage, and a large indoor and outdoor entertainment
space. It is an open fl oor plan with the spacious rooms divided
only by the layout of the furniture. The use of local fl ora and
fauna along with a low level pond demarcate the entrance to
the massive stainless steel entry door. The external experience
is only surpassed by the interior one. Specialty lighting, double
volume ceilings, state of the art sound system, and the sleek
modern furniture allow for a jaw dropping moment. This is a
home that will stay current for years to come.
Janoura Residence
Janoura Residence
“Contemporary Lines, amongst natural beauty
A Home where you want to LIVE…”
The Orchard’s, Moka, Trinidad
A single family home
A 3500 s.f., 3 bedroom 3 ½ bathroom Spanish transitional
home. Inspired by its surroundings, the site is located in a de-
velopment once part of an orchard. The house is laid out on the
site in an L-shape, engulfi ng the land and the views. The main
outdoor entertainment is located at the heart of the house and
is easily accessible to both the kitchen and the pool. Sitting on
this open verandah one truly feels that you are amongst the
orchard trees. All the large trees were preserved on the site and
the design was sensitive to their existing locations. Although the
client had very Spanish inspired tastes the fi nal result is transi-
tioning towards a tropical home.
Singh Residence
Singh Residence, Moka
“Relax in a soothing environment”
Apes Hill, Barbados
A single family luxury Residence
2500 s.f.
A 3 bedroom 3 ½ bathroom Modern Tropical home. Barbados
is internationally known as a tourist destination. Its island hos-
pitality is surpassed only by its natural beauty. Its crystal clear
waters and white sand beaches are forces one cannot resist.
These natural forces are brought into the design of this house,
making it as irresistible to the user as Barbados is to its tour-
ists. By bringing nature into the house I have created a warm,
tropical atmosphere. At the same time, keeping the lines clean
and fresh, to produce a style that fi ts easily into the tranquil
Barbados environment whilst embodying its own unique char-
acteristics, thus making it a HOME.
Singh Residence
Singh Residence, Apes Hill
“Sophisticated elegance with a distinctly tropical feel…”
Apes Hill, Barbados
Newbury Hill, Trinidad
Single Family Residence
This house was designed with 3 ensuite bedrooms, 4 bath-
rooms in a Modern Style. Newbury Hill is strategically placed
overlooking the western coastline of Trinidad. The layout of
the house has maximized the beautiful views at this hill top
property. With an infi nity edge pool caressing the contours of the
mountain the home owner has a wonderful entertainment space
that fl ows from the mountain through the house overlooking the
valley.
These natural forces of the site inspired the simple modern lines
allowing the house to compliment the beauty of the site and not
overpower it. By keeping the lines clean and fresh a unique style
is produced that stands out amongst the hill but at the same
time fi ts easily into the tranquil environment.
Arrindel Residence
Arrindel Residence, Newbury Hill
Michelle Leotaud, [email protected]