M a r i a n n a d e C o l a : S e l e c t e d W o r k s

M a r i a n n a d e C o l a 4 1 6 . 4 5 3 . 4 0 0 81 Beatrice St. Apt 2, Toronto, ON, M6J 2T2 mdecola@gmail.com

E d u c a t i o n

2009-11 University of Waterloo Graduate School of ArchitectureMaster of Architecture

2003-08 University of Waterloo School of ArchitectureHonours Bachelor of Architectural Studies Pre-professional Architecture Program

1998-03 Ursuline College ChathamOAC diploma with Honours

A c a d e m i c A p p o i n t m e n t s

2010 University of Waterloo School of Architecture Teaching Assistant – 2nd year Design Studio Arch 293 [L. Sheppard]

Assisted in coordination of studio, field trips, critique schedules, project information preparation.

Heavily involved in weekly student critiques and final reviews.

2009 University of Waterloo School of Architecture Teaching Assistant – 3rd year Design Studio Arch 393 [A. Levitt]

Assisted in coordination, project/site information, and marking. Involved in personal student critiques as well as final critique/reviews.

P r i o r P r o f e s s i o n a l E x p e r i e n c e

2011 LateralOffice/InfranetLab[Toronto,Ontario]Graphics and Design Assistant for Next NorthProduced cartographic representations for the Next North exhibition at

Design at Riverside, Cambridge Galleries.

2008-2009 Kearns Mancini Architects [Toronto, Ontario]Architect’s AssistantProduced feasibility study of condo development in west Toronto. Heavily

involved in meetings with client and city council regarding soil testing, height requirements, and zoning. Aided in revisions of construction documents, partial design revisions,

meetings with contractor regarding Rivertowne Housing development in Toronto.

2008 Quadrangle Architects Limited [Toronto, Ontario]Architectural AssistantInvolved in Permit, Construction documents and aided in design of

condo presentation centre.Responsible for construction drawings coherency and plate plans for a

22-storey condominium.Assisted in design concept for Toftegards Plads Syd competition in

Copenhagen.

2007 HLWInternational[London,England]Architect’s AssistantResponsible for the production of Design, Construction, Bid Set

drawings for office interiors.Produced graphic analyses and renderings.

2006 UrbanStrategies[Toronto,Ontario]DesignInternResponsible for document layout, organization of project proposals and

analytical diagrams of city regions.Participated in newly formed Community Sustainability Committee by

researching new technologies and aided in presentation of the material for an office workshop.

2005 Shigeru Ban + Dean Maltz Architects [New York, New York]Architect’s AssistantResponsible for managing the MoMA exhibition of Shigeru Ban’s Paper

Log House.Produced of Design, Construction, and Bid set drawings of a variety of

projects.Participated in many architect to client meetings to discuss design,

permit, and scheduling issues.

C o n f e r e n c e s & S y m p o s i a

03.2011 99th ACSA Annual Conference [Peer Reviewed] McGill University, Université de Montréal, Montreal Paper: Shifting Infrastructures

Energy as a Spatial Project Topic Chair: Rania Ghosn, Harvard University

Moderator: Alessandra Ponte, Université de Montréal

03.2010 TheSky’sTheLimit:RoundtableDiscussion[Invited] Toronto Moderators: Netami Stuart OALA, Victoria Taylor OALA Intern

P u b l i c a t i o n s

2011 de Cola, M. “Shifting Landscapes, Shifting Infrastructures,” Goes Soft, Bracket 2. (Barcelona: Actar, 2011). [Forthcoming]

de Cola, M., Panacci, M. “Those That Left Behind,” RE:SiteIssue2:Architecture + Migration, (2011). [Forthcoming]

de Cola, M. “Shifting Infrastructures,” Proceedings of the 99th Annual ACSA Conference in Montreal, (Washington, ACSA Press, 2011), 367-375.

2010 de Cola, M. “Shift: Newfoundland’s South,” Architecture + Migration, On Site 24, (2010), 38-41.

de Cola, M. “Leaving Newfoundland,” Cover Art, Architecture + Migration, On Site 24, (2010), cover.

de Cola, M. “Artifacts: Healing Benthic Wounds,” Ground Magazine 10, (2010), 42.

“The Sky’s The Limit,” Ground Magazine 10, (2010), 24-27.

Aw a r d s & S c h o l a r s h i p s

2011 GSO Research Travel Grant2007 Third Year Design Studio Award winner 2003 Aiming for the Top Tuition Scholarship recipient University of Waterloo Entrance Scholarship Ursuline College Award Winner for Outstanding Student1999-03 Outstanding and Highest Academic Achievement Award Winner in

Fine Art, Mathematics, Physical Education, Religious Studies, Design Technology

Te c h n i c a l S k i l l s

Adobe CS4 - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesignAuto Cad 2010, Vectorworks, SketchUp, Rhino [basic knowledge]Microsoft Office - Excel, Word, PowerpointModel Making [various media, techniques]Photography [plus traditional development process]Silkscreen Printing *References upon Request*

Work : Paper Log House

Firm : Dean Maltz Architect + Shigeru Ban AssociatesTasks : Construction drawings, material orders, task coordination, construction.

Safe Exhibition : MoMA, New YorkFollowing Hurricane Katrina an exhibi-tion on relief housing took place at the Museum of Modern Art. Dean Maltz + Shigeru Ban Architects along with Coo-per Union students assembled the house on site. My responsibilities included con-struction drawings, oredering of materi-als, and construction coordination.

Work : Vapnek House

Firm : Dean Maltz Architect + Shigeru Ban AssociatesTasks : Construction drawings.

Vapnek House : Shelter Island, NY“The Boomerang House” is a one story 3,650 sf residence sited to take advantage of the views of West Neck Harbour. The roof rests on four concrete cores con-taining kitchen bathroom and storage. Involved in construction drawings. All drawings done in VectorWorks.

Work : Palisades on the Glen

Firm : Quadrangle Architects LimitedTasks : Construction documents.

Palisades on the Glen : Mississauga, ONPalisades on the Glen is high-rise condo retirement living located in Mississauga. Responsibilities included ceiling plans, unit adjustments, and concrete plate drawings.

Work : North York Concorde Presentation Centre

Firm : Quadrangle Architects LimitedTasks : Permit set, construction docu-ments

Concord Adex Presentation Centre : To-ronto, ONWorking closely with Naoki Stepanek, I had a fast paced experience developing permit drawings and simultaneously de-veloping construction documents. I had in depth involvement in creating site plan, plan, and elevation drawings, as well as the design of the elevations.

Work : Don Mount Court, Rivertowne

Firm : Kearns Mancini ArchitectsTasks : Construction documents, site in-structions, change-orders.

Rivertowne, Don Mount Court : Toron-to, ON. Joint venture with Montgomery Sisam Architects Inc. in the redevelopment of affordable housing. My involvement in-cluded redesign of entrances to parking garages in collaboration with landscape architect to follow restrictions due to 100 year flood line.

Work : Downtown Ottawa Urban Development System

Firm : Urban Strategies Inc.Tasks : Mapping of existing conditions.

Downtown Ottawa Urban Design Strat-egy : Ottawa, ON.This project developed a design strategy to enhance the quality of the public realm of Canada’s National Capital. As action-oriented plan, the study established a new vision for Ottawa’s downtown core as an inspiring destination. The Down-town Ottawa Urban Design Strategy will function as the City’s main directive for providing design guidance to downtown developments.

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Work : J&J Milan

Firm : HLW LondonTasks : Presentation drawings, design drawings.

Johnson & Johnson : Milan, ItalyJohnson & Johnson hired HLW to design the interiors for their research facilities in Milan. I designed options for office num-bers/designtations within the facilities.

Work : Melli Bank

Firm : HLW LondonTasks : Presentation drawings, schematic design drawings.

Melli Bank : Tehran, IranAn existing client, Melli Bank, requested an interior design of their office within an existing building. My responsibilities in-cluded design of office layout, materials, and receptionist desk as well as presenta-tion drawings.

Research : Next North

Firm : Infranet Lab / Lateral OfficeTasks : Exhibition Drawings.

Next North Exhibition : Cambridge Gal-leries.Lateral Office and Infranet Lab developed an exhibition that hosted architectural models accompanied by drawings with in depth investigations of the Canadian North. The exhibition included maps, timelines, graphs, and photographs that portray the transformations taking place in the North. Responsibilities included the development of the 6 main carto-graphic maps that exhibited the provoca-tive designs by Infranet and Lateral.

Competition : Museum of Polish HistoryTeam : Christina Chow, Marianna de Cola, Ian Huff, Elisia Neves, Ryszard Sli-wka, John Williamson.

MPH : Warsaw, PolandThe team designed and developed pre-sentation boards for the Museum of Pol-ish history sited in a densely forested park in Warsw, Poland. I aided in design and developed the design drawings for the competition.

Competitions : Museum of Polish History

Competitions : NOSoA

Competition : Northern Ontario School of ArchitectureTeam : Craig England, Marianna de Cola

A competition sited in the downtown of Sudbury Ontario calls for the design of a school of architecture. Our design, named Fissure, is focused on the formation and exchange of ideas. The perimeter spaces of the building are places where ideas are conceived, developed, and executed. The interstitial and interior spaces within the building are where ideas are exchanged. From formal critiques to informal conver-sations, these spaces have been designed to provide opportunities for a variety of exchanges.

Competitions : NOSoA

Thesis : 80 Fathoms Deep

THE HISTORY OF NEWFOUND-LAND is intimately tied to its relation-ship with the sea, to its island status and its consequent cultural isolation, to its reliance on fishing and more recently oil. It is also one of tides - of prosperity and loss, migration and resettlement, of occu-pation and erasure. This research is an investigation into the nature of mutable landscapes – shifting settlements, resources and infrastruc-tures. It is recognized that the needs of each community and the resources of each environment are diverse in type and supply. These stories outline the historical spatialization of Newfoundland’s popula-tion, infrastructures, and economies - pre-senting the history as a fluctuating story of the sea. They also simultaneously out-line the various social and economic de-ficiencies of modern development. Struc-tured chronologically, the research forms the basis for an investigation into new ideas for an infrastructure off the south-ern coast of Newfoundland.

The discovery of oil within the Grand Banks marked a shift in their economic focus away from cod and in the direction of oil. However, Newfoundland remains dependent on a mono-economy and the social deficiencies remain. It becomes clear that the issues behind the difficulties this province faces is not a singular but a layered series of causes and effects. The speculated infrastructure addresses this multiplicity while still sustainably capital-izing on the sea. It may also seek financial leverage from the oil industries as a form of royalties to the province of Newfound-land.This investigation tests the possibility for a contemporary energy and monitor-ing system to become a physically and culturally pronounced manifestation of a layered historical narrative. It has the opportunity to link the ecological, politi-cal, cultural, and historical constituents in atomized communities while working as a dynamic system that responds to their needs and demands.

This design project exemplifies themes of shifting and movement through a mobile energy, and research infrastructure. It is situated off the southern coast of New-foundland and engages both the land and the seas.This thesis does not try to tame, resolve, or control the sea. The sea is always it-self, ordered by its own cycles of tides, currents and ecologies. One can only syn-chronize the relationships between the land and the sea.

Supervisor : Lola SheppardTerm : 2009 - 2011

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Grand Bank

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Thesis : 80 Fathoms Deep

Thesis : 80 Fathoms Deep

Primary Stability - Stability in still water

Secondary Stability - Stability in rough water

More Habitable in still waters More Habitable in rough waters

Carbon Sensor

Hydraulic Wave Converter

Courtenay’s Whistling Buoy

Arti�cial Reef Anchor

TempSensor

Oxygen Sensor

Sediment Trap

B+W Low Light Video Camera

Hydraulic Wave Converter

Temperature Sensor

Carbon Sensor

Oxygen Sensor

Sediment Trap

Monitors Repeated as above

Arti�cial Reef

Hinge

Whistling Mechanism

Buoyant Element / Platform

Sea Level

Inshore Floor Depth

Bank Depth

Channel Depth

Elevation Breakdown: Degrees of Inhabitation

+/- 20m

+/- 0m

+/- 200m

+/- 400m

Primary Stability - Stability in still water

Secondary Stability - Stability in rough water

More Habitable in still waters More Habitable in rough waters

Carbon Sensor

Hydraulic Wave Converter

Courtenay’s Whistling Buoy

Arti�cial Reef Anchor

TempSensor

Oxygen Sensor

Sediment Trap

B+W Low Light Video Camera

Hydraulic Wave Converter

Temperature Sensor

Carbon Sensor

Oxygen Sensor

Sediment Trap

Monitors Repeated as above

Arti�cial Reef

Hinge

Whistling Mechanism

Buoyant Element / Platform

Sea Level

Inshore Floor Depth

Bank Depth

Channel Depth

Elevation Breakdown: Degrees of Inhabitation

+/- 20m

+/- 0m

+/- 200m

+/- 400m

Primary Stability - Stability in still water

Secondary Stability - Stability in rough water

More Habitable in still waters More Habitable in rough waters

Carbon Sensor

Hydraulic Wave Converter

Courtenay’s Whistling Buoy

Arti�cial Reef Anchor

TempSensor

Oxygen Sensor

Sediment Trap

B+W Low Light Video Camera

Hydraulic Wave Converter

Temperature Sensor

Carbon Sensor

Oxygen Sensor

Sediment Trap

Monitors Repeated as above

Arti�cial Reef

Hinge

Whistling Mechanism

Buoyant Element / Platform

Sea Level

Inshore Floor Depth

Bank Depth

Channel Depth

Elevation Breakdown: Degrees of Inhabitation

+/- 20m

+/- 0m

+/- 200m

+/- 400m

Primary Stability - Stability in still water

Secondary Stability - Stability in rough water

More Habitable in still waters More Habitable in rough waters

Carbon Sensor

Hydraulic Wave Converter

Courtenay’s Whistling Buoy

Arti�cial Reef Anchor

TempSensor

Oxygen Sensor

Sediment Trap

B+W Low Light Video Camera

Hydraulic Wave Converter

Temperature Sensor

Carbon Sensor

Oxygen Sensor

Sediment Trap

Monitors Repeated as above

Arti�cial Reef

Hinge

Whistling Mechanism

Buoyant Element / Platform

Sea Level

Inshore Floor Depth

Bank Depth

Channel Depth

Elevation Breakdown: Degrees of Inhabitation

+/- 20m

+/- 0m

+/- 200m

+/- 400m

Thesis : 80 Fathoms Deep

Thesis : 80 Fathoms Deep

Thesis : 80 Fathoms Deep

Thesis : 80 Fathoms Deep

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middle gallery with bench north entrance

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building analysis

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west elevation 1:100south elevation 1:100

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the site for the venice biennale has a unique synchronicity

that creates a movement that the building cannot ignore. the flows and pressures on the site inform the building

and provide beautiful gallery spaces for people to wander

through.

liquid stone : venice biennale pavilion marianna decola 20127982

north gallery

exterior looking south

exterior looking along entrance

reception

middle gallery with bench north entrance

south entrance

site analysis

sectional torque

building form (section & plan)

core component

planar torque

flows

site

site

site

site

core

core vertical flow

galleryspaces

galleryspaces

support

support

flows + pressure

building analysis

liquid stone : venice biennale pavilion marianna decola 20127982

north elevation 1:100 east elevation 1:100

west elevation 1:100south elevation 1:100

liquid stone : venice biennale pavilion marianna decola 20127982

north elevation 1:100 east elevation 1:100

west elevation 1:100south elevation 1:100

perspectives

elevations

diagrams

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liquid stone

the site for the venice biennale has a unique synchronicity

that creates a movement that the building cannot ignore. the flows and pressures on the site inform the building

and provide beautiful gallery spaces for people to wander

through.

liquid stone : venice biennale pavilion marianna decola 20127982

north gallery

exterior looking south

exterior looking along entrance

reception

middle gallery with bench north entrance

south entrance

site analysis

sectional torque

building form (section & plan)

core component

planar torque

flows

site

site

site

site

core

core vertical flow

galleryspaces

galleryspaces

support

support

flows + pressure

building analysis

liquid stone : venice biennale pavilion marianna decola 20127982

north elevation 1:100 east elevation 1:100

west elevation 1:100south elevation 1:100

liquid stone : venice biennale pavilion marianna decola 20127982

north elevation 1:100 east elevation 1:100

west elevation 1:100south elevation 1:100

perspectives

elevations

diagrams

Studio : Canadian Biennale

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cross section 1:100

transverse section 1:100

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precast concrete panel25mm air spacevapour barrier100mm rigid insulation300mm poured concrete

z angle bolted to cast in concrete walls

L angle added to formwork before pour

300mm poured concrete wall with extra 50mm beyond structural line

two L angles resting on each other and welded

detail section 1:15

site plan 1:500

st andrews rd mill creek

cross section 1:100

transverse section 1:100

liquid stone : venice biennale pavilion marianna decola 20127982

precast concrete panel25mm air spacevapour barrier100mm rigid insulation300mm poured concrete

z angle bolted to cast in concrete walls

L angle added to formwork before pour

300mm poured concrete wall with extra 50mm beyond structural line

two L angles resting on each other and welded

detail section 1:15

site plan 1:500

st andrews rd mill creek

liquid stone

transverse section

cross section

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reception restaurant

exterior gallery river walk

retail

Project : Canadian Biennale GalleryTerm : Fourth year 2008

Situated between the river, city paths and sidewalks, the building serves as a con-nector within the urban fabric of the city of Cambridge. Arts and entertainment can be facilitated within building and its public space ranging from open-air art exhibits to to double height spaces to en-closed exhibition rooms. The buildings core provides the seperation between two types of space: The introverted east blocks the views to the outside traffic and the extroverted west provides a panoram-ic view of historial downtown beyond the Grand River. The Gallery’s intention is to become the ultimate public building with the pedestrian network through the river parks slicing through the gallery functions.

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Studio : Toronto Urban Intervention

Project : Gardiner InterventionTerm : Third year, 2006

Acting as a mediator between the driver and the pedestrian, the intervention be-comes a spectacle of light reflections and sound reverberations. The site is located just north of the Harbourfront Centre.

Studio : West Donlands

Project : West Donlands Urban DesignTerm : Third year, 2006

Project surrounded a pedestrian network through the West Donlands. A previous project outlines the Urban design of the entire area including the implementation of a GO Train station. The pedestrian path connects residential through the sta-tion through to the cultural centre at the mouth of the Don River.

Studio : Toronto Urban Intervention

Project : Urban HotelTerm : Third year, 2006

At the busy intersection of King and Spa-dina in Toronto, our task was to design a hotel. At such an eclectic and visually confusing site, the building plays with-perspectives within the building and out to the surroundings.

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kitchen

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restaurant

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cafe

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greenroom

changerooms

laundry

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bar kitchen

storage

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theatrelobby

large meeting room

meetingroom

meetingroom

w/r

open to stagebelow

open to below

theatremezzanine

open to below open to

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smallbar

w/rw/r

w/r

soundbooth

theatre lobby mezzanine

reflective pool

spa rooms

changerooms change-rooms

swimmingpool fitness

deck

runningtrack

storagestorage

garden

second floorground floor plan

third floor plan fourth floor plan

9hotel ames

stage

storage

office

office

kitchen

w/r w/r

restaurant

hotel lobby

cafe

w/r

storage

open to stagebelow

greenroom

changerooms

laundry

w/rw/r

bar kitchen

storage

baropen to below open to

belowbox office

w/r

w/r

theatrelobby

large meeting room

meetingroom

meetingroom

w/r

open to stagebelow

open to below

theatremezzanine

open to below open to

below

smallbar

w/rw/r

w/r

soundbooth

theatre lobby mezzanine

reflective pool

spa rooms

changerooms change-rooms

swimmingpool fitness

deck

runningtrack

storagestorage

garden

second floorground floor plan

third floor plan fourth floor plan