felicia nitu portfolio 2009-2013

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The design of this house was rethought based on the lifestyle of the new Capitol Hill de-mography. The new house is representative for the current social paradigm shift where a family of same sex couple decides to move into a larger home to start their entrepreneurial adventure. As the designer for the project, I transformed a traditional single-family home in a live-work life-style environment. The design challenge was to mitigate the existing layout of the house with the requirements of an office space with the privacy of the residential area. While preserving privacy be-tween programs, I open the house into itself and to the beautiful views to Lake Washington.

Project: Residential remodel - Under Construction Seattle - WARole: Lead Designer @ CITYSTRUCTURETasks: SD, Permit drawings and submission, CD and CA

I try to enhance what seems to be valuable, to cor-rect what Is dIs-turbIng, and to cre-ate anew what we feel Is mIssIng

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The original design of the house was offered a unidirec-tional experience without connectivity between programs and divorced from the activities happening at the other floors. The new design offers a fluid floor plan and visual connection with the upper floor.

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The bathing experience has been changed to fit a dy-namic modern couple. from the traditional bathtub bathing ritual to a 30sf walk-in shower experience. The flat walls have be-come part of the program of-fering display, storage and a backdrop for indirect lighting areas.

kITCHEn

The kitchen openness to the living room and to the second floor office space required a redefini-tion of what this area represents in the overall ex-perience of the house. In the new design, the kitchen area besides the cooking tasks, it also supports social activities in an environment that resembles more as an ex-tension of the living room area.

02EmPoWERHoUSE

Despite the general belief that a sustainable project is also expensive to build, my multi-disci-plinary studio team put together an affordable pas-sive house for low income people. In collaboration with Habitat for Humanity and DC local government we were able to design and build two houses that will be offered to low income families in Deanwood, Washington DC. The goal for this project was to create an en-ergy efficient design that meets financial and con-structability constrains of Habitat for Humanity.

CoULD THE PASSIvE HoUSE bE An ACTIvE STATEmEnT In ARCHI-TECTURE?

Project: Design-built Residential new York/Solar Decathlon 2011Role: Designer, PARSonS THE nEW SCHooLAward: Winning Project - Solar Decathlon 2011Tasks: Designer and Student Project manager

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our design strategy was to control heat gain and losses though the superinsulated skin and size the openings in relation to the house orientation and obstructions on the site.

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This project covers 18-acre and it was de-signed to foster a pedestrian-oriented neighbor-hood. Situated on a hillside above the Historic Lyn-wood Center, it includes an Inn, retail spaces with housing above to complement the existing Tudor style building across the street. The residences are a mix of various housing types to address different demographic typology. The pedestrian connectivity between the residential community and commercial area is supported by an extensive network of trails and open spaces.

CoULD THE ConTEm-PoRARY ARCHITEC-TURE REvIvE THE noSTALgIC STATE of mInD AS THE HISToR-IC bUILDIngS EmboDY foR CEnTURIES?

Project: master Plan, mixed-Use and Residential buildings bainbridge Island - Under ConstructionRole: Architect Intern and Lead Interior Designer for the Inn, Wenzlau ArchitectsTasks: Site Planing, Zoning and IbC/IRC Code analysis, Permit and Construction drawings Lead Interior Designer for the Inn

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visconsi project has been a controversy on Bainbridge Island since day one, making the first page of the local newspaper for months. The core of the controversy lays in the discrepancy between the commercial zoning regulations and residents vision about islands residential character. my studio faced a design challenge that had to speak for both sides. our response was to de-sign a pedestrian friendly village-like commercial center. The scale of the new development, its footprint and the architectural character of the retail buildings create a social environment for the neigh-borhood wived into the existing green space.

WHAT ARE THE nEW REAL ESTATE DEvEL-oPmEnTS? An InvA-SIon of THE nATURE bY THE HUmAn nA-TURE oR JUST A nATU-RAL EvoLUTIon?

Project: Commercial master Plan - mall bainbridge Island - WA 2012Role: Architect Intern, Wenzlau ArchitectsTasks: Site Planing Design, Renderings

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Despite the general belief that a sustainable project is also expensive to build, my multi-disciplinary studio team put together an affordable passive house for low income people. In collaboration with Habitat for Hu-manity and DC local government we were able to de-sign and build two houses that will be offered to low in-come families in Deanwood, Washington DC.

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Project: mixed-use High Rise new York City 2010Role: Student project, mArch Parsons

The project proposes a sustainable and faster com-muting option (cuts the time in half) for professionals and a year-long attraction for the neighborhood. The urbanism, landscape and architecture fuse together in a structural mor-phology that celebrates each other. In todays society, connectivity and urgency are very valued. The neighborhood has been culturally revived though a new Lincoln Center but it is still far away from many new Yorks points of interest like financial District, nJ, brooklyn, beaches, Upstate new York, etc..

buIldIngs embrace that mysterIous voId called space In a specIal way and make It vIbrate

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nY Waterway has invested in new modern and fast ferryboats. This new type of public transportation that connections with main destinations, both for leisure and business, would help offset the carbon footprint created by car traffic.

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Riverside Park users are very diverse, from moms with babies to professionals turned amateur athletes. However, the park is a seasonal attraction. The fusion ferry Terminal would be all-day, year-round point of interest by offering entertainment spaces and sweep-ing views of the Hudson River and surroundings.

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arcStart = Rhino.GetPoint(Start point of arc)arcEnd = Rhino.GetPoint(End point of arc)arcMiddle = Rhino.GetPoint(Point on arc) If (IsArray(arcStart) And IsArray(arcEnd) And IsArray(arcMiddle)) Thenarc = Rhino.AddArc3Pt(arcStart, arcEnd, arcMiddle)mirroredArc = Rhino.MirrorObject(arc, arcStart, ar-cEnd, True) End IfaxisPoint = Rhino.PointAdd(arcStart) If IsArray(axisPoint) ThenRhino.AddPoint axisPoint End If If Rhino.IsArc(arc)ThendblAngle = Rhino.GetReal(enter angle,5,0,10)Rhino.Print Arc angle: & CStr(dblAngle)intNumCrvs = Rhino.GetInteger(enter number of curves,20,0,50)dblAngle2 = Rhino.GetReal(enter second an-gle,2,0,5)z = Rhino.GetReal(input thick-ness,1,0,5) End If If Rhino.IsArc(arc)ThendblAngle3 = Rhino.GetReal(enter angle,5,0,10)Rhino.Print Arc angle: & CStr(dblAngle)dblAngle = Rhino.GetReal(enter angle,5,0,10)intNumCrvs = Rhino.GetInteger(enter number of

The design of the canopy serves structural and environmental requirements. from the structural perspective, the canopy pattern is ef-ficient and it can enclose a large area with minimum number of columns. The parametric design allowed multiple iterations of the canopy so that size of the apertures would control the quantity of light in relation with the program requirement.

PARAmETRIC CAnoPY

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Project: Design School Shanghai 2011Role: Student project, mArch Parsons Prof. Henry Smith miller, Principal at mS+ Architects Studio

Parsons The new School intends to open a new branch in Shanghai. The Chinese government is favorable to this proposal since it will grow local design talent. The Elevated School was designed to make an envi-ronmental statement and to create an educational tool for stu-dents and public. The school was specifically located over the freeway to minimize the footprint while getting a lot of public exposure.

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Pollution of the water is one of the main concern in Shanghai. The design of the new School project tries to minimize the impact at the ground level and further the pollution of the water.

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The public could learn about students work through creating a place of direct knowledge transfer be-tween them enabled by a pedestrian bridge that passes through the schools exhibitions.

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Project: mixed-use High Rise new York City 2010Role: Student project, mArch Parsons

Low-income housing in new York has proven not to be sustainable. generally, low-income housing projects bring together a homogenous group of people both from a financial and social perspective. This collusion increases rather than decreases crime and irresponsible social behavior. To prevent the inevitable self-implosion of such communities, cities incur unplanned and on-going clean-up costs, comparable to the initial investment.

form and con-structIon, appear-ance and functIon are no longer sep-arate, they belong together and form a whole

PETER ZUmTHoR

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86 greenwich St., new York is not just a parking ga-rage, it has potential to bring together people from battery Park City, financial District, Staten Island and tourists, in a cultural, artistic and business community. Studying neigh-borhoods that are most valued by new Yorkers, I implement-ed design strategies that have the potential to increase the desirability of tall buildings while maintaining their environ-mental advantages. The programmatic organization of the villageSky-scraper investigates how programs could be interlinked so that a tall building could nurture human interaction similar to the West village community.

08the vILLAgE SkYSCRAPER

Project: mixed-use Skyscraper manhattan 2011Role: Student project, mArch Parsons Prof. Astrid Lipka - Principal at Lyn Rice Architects Prof. Reid freeman - Senior Associate at James Carpenter Design Associates

...a buIldIng must be capable of ab-sorbIng the trac-es of human lIfe and thus of takIng on specIfIc rIch-ness

PETER ZUmTHoR

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