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Adrienne Anne MerhebUndergraduate Portfolio Syracuse University 35 Fairview Ave, Tarrytown, NY 10591
P: (914) 539 1551
NYC Urban Studio Housing Project : Speculation on the idea of the meaning of home in an urban fabric. Under the direction of Jing Liu, SO-IL. Brooklyn, NY.
Comprehensive Studio: Envelopes.Hudson Yards Development, NYC.
Hobart & William Smith Dormitory: Connection to existing homogeneous landscape. Geneva, NY.
Prototype Project/Billboard Hotel : Re-imagining of the hotel as a social and economic connecting node.Siteless.
Live-Work Advertising Firm : How technology can work in conjunction with architecture to produce a more fluid work space. Skaneateles, NY. Venice Film Museum : Using film as a design tool.Venice, Italy.
Personal Work
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Syracuse University School of Architecture - Bachelor of Architecture 2014Thesis: Negotiating Live/Work Spaces in Qadisha Valley: As a catalyst for Local Economic Growth.International Study: London Studio. Joris Pauwels, Zaha Hadid Architects. Spring 2013NYC Urban Studio. Jing Liu, SO-IL. Fall 2012Sleepy Hollow High School - High School Regents Diploma with High Honors 2008
EDUCATION
SKILLSLanguages - English, Fluent Lebanese Computer - AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, SketchUp, Illustrator, InDesign, PhotoshopArt Media - watercolor, charcoal, oil paint, Drafting
COMMUNITYPhelps Memorial Hospital Transport Service 2006-07 Transported patients in hospital for procedures
Kendal on Hudson 2006-07Weekly meetings and entertainment of elderly in nursing home
Computer Classes for the Elderly 2005-08 Trained individuals and groups in world-processing applications
Phelps Memorial Hospital Nurses Program 2007 Basic life saving skills and procedures
Adrienne Anne behreM 35 Fairview Ave, Tarrytown, NY 10591 p:914 539 1551 e:[email protected]
AFFILIATIONSStudent Liaison - Syracuse University School of Architecture 2012
Warner Library Teen Committee Board 2005-2008 Design/construction of a new teen room at library
Interact Club 2005-2008
Community building organization
Featured in NLA 2013
White Plains Invitational Judge 2010 WPI science fair competition for students in Westchester county area
Chancellor’s Scholarship 2008
Honors Science Research Program 2005-2008 Thesis paper: Gender and Spatial Knowledge in Different Age Groups Thesis paper: Gender and Spatial Knowledge in Different Age Groups
Mentor: Susan Croll, associate professor of neuropsychology, City University of NYCStudy examined spatial knowledge in males and females at distinct developmental stages
English Honor Society/ Math Honor Society/ Science Honor Society 2006-2008
London’s Center for the Built Environment Field Explorations ExhibitionHONORS
WORKFreelance. Posca Garage Refurbishment (Tarrytown, NY) 2012
Freelance. Bleu Monkey Restaurant Expansion Design (Syracuse, NY) 2012
French 2D Design Intern (Syracuse, NY) 2010-2011
Syracuse University Gallery Exhibition Team (Syracuse, NY) 2010-2011
Denis Noskin Architects Intern (Tarrytown, NY) 2008
Design of new masonry wall. Produced design, construction drawings, 3D modeling, for small scale garage.
Produced presentation, design, construction drawings, 3D modeling, for restaurant addition.
Produced presentation model for Westcott Theatre refurbishment.
Worked on presentation boards for clients, organized materials library.
3Personal work: oil pastel, charcoal, ink.
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NYC Urban Studio Housing Project Homes are now integrated into the external local and global spheres, but how do we begin to integrate homes with one another and then small communities for social connectivity? The architecture of the home in NYC should provide ambiguity, specifically within the wall. It should prompt attention, examination, and an awareness to the user. Are these walls solid? Virtual? Images? Who is beyond them? Walls should fa-cilitate interaction and social occurrences between dwellers. The wall becomes the movement of people, how they observe and how they are observed. The project plays with different materiality of walls within to allow for different interactions and experiences throughout.
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From left clockwise:(1)site plan; Autocad, illustrator, sketchup, photoshop, (2)ground floor; autocad, illustrator, (3)floor one; autocad, illustrator, (4)formal massing diagrams; rhinoceros, illustrator, (5)rendering; sketchup, illustrator, photoshop (6)n-s section; autocad, illustrator, (7)facade elevation; sketchup, photoshop, (8)floor three; autocad, illustrator, (9)floor two; autocad, illustrator, (10)e-w sec-tion; autocad, illustrator, photoshop.
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Comprehensive Studio: In design collaboration with Alexander Strzelecki. Design of a mixed use, office, commercial tower in the Hudson Yards district in manhattan. The skin of the tower provides for an efficient and sustainable environment that houses public and private park spaces. The diagrid envelope creates hollow spaces between offices and apartments for passive ventilation, which allows for stack effect within the envelope space to travel up the building and release through the roof.
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From left clockwise:(1)rendering; photoshop, keyshot 2, rhinoceros, (2)longitudinal section; autocad, illustrator, (3)rendering; photoshop, keyshot 2, (4)sky lobby floor plan; autocad, illustrator, (5) office floor plan; autocad, illustrator.
Ground Level0’
Level 114’ 8”
Level 229’ 4”
Level 344’
Level 458’ 8”
Level 573’ 4”
Level 688’
Level 7102’ 8”
Level 8117’ 4”
Level 9132’
Level 10146’ 8”
Level 11161’ 4”
Level 12176’
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Level 18266.4’
Level 19278’ 8”
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Level 23337’ 4”
Level 24352’
Level 25366’ 8”
Level 26381’ 4”
Level 27396’
Level 28410’ 8”
Level 29425’ 4”
Level 30440’
Level 31454’ 8”
Level 31469’ 4”
Level 32480’ 7”
Basement Level-16’ 8”
Level 33498’ 8”
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Level 40627’ 3”
Level 39607’ 2”
Level 38589’ 1”
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Comprehensive Studio: In design collaboration with Alexander Strzelecki.
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From left:(1)short section; autocad, illustrator, rhinoceros, (2)rendering; keyshot 2, photoshop, (3)detail section; autocad, illustrator, [from top left clockwise: (4)study model; foam, (5)study model; foam, (6)study model; foam, (7)study model; strathmore, (8)study model, foam, plexi, (9)study model; basswood, foam, plexi, strathmore.
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Hobart & William Smith DormitoryDesign of a dormitory on the Hobart and William Smith Colleges campus. The building consists of a student center, an auditorium space, as well as bedrooms for students. Both using the monastery as a precedent for design as well as a careful consideration of the surrounding ho-mogeneous landscape, a form for the project emerged.
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From left clockwise:(1)axon; autocad, illustrator, photoshop, rhinoceros, (2)sketch diagram of floor plan; ink, marker, (3)sketch diagram comparison to monastery; ink, marker, (4)sketch site relationships; ink, marker, (5)site plan and section; autocad, illustrator, (6)sketch site relationships; ink, marker, (7)sketch circulation diagram; ink, marker, (8)sketch structure diagram; ink, marker, (9)sketch sectional relationships diagram; ink, marker, (10)Single and double dormitory plans and axons; autocad, illustrator.
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Prototype Project: Billboard HotelHotel: Re-imagining of the hotel as a social and economic connecting node.The Hotel serves as a platform for connecting people doing business in the same areas using the bedroom as the prototypical module. The mod-ule is equipped with a smart board and several screens that serve to communicate with the people within, and advertise on the exterior to the people outside. The module is dispersed throughout the larger mega-structure to form a the greater billboard. The project investigates the intersection between programmatic needs (hotel), ubiquitous computing (smart board), formal limitations and organizational strategies.
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From left:(1)longitudinal section; autocad, illustrator, (2)short section close up; autocad, illustrator, (3)Study models; strathmore, bass-wood [four images left column], (4)Final model; strathmore, basswood, plexi, [three images right column], (5)longitudinal section close up; autocad, illustrator, (6)short section; autocad, illustrator.
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Live-Work Advertising FirmDesign for a live work space with a ubiquitous computing device in mind by creating a network of communication between occupants and cli-ents that is constantly in flux, dynamic visual and physical relationships are produced in spaces. The project investigates the conditions of communal live work space as a network, both digitally and physically. The design also meditates between physical and digital exchange in these networks. The space serves as an advertising firm, that enables one to view the firms work , but to also directly interact with em-ployees producing the advertisements.
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From left:(1)study models; basswood[top four images], (2)final model; strathmore,acetone transfer [bottom four images], (3)ground floor plan; autocad, illustrator, (4)floor one; autocad, illustrator, (5)floor two; autocad, illustrator, (6)floor three; autocad, illustrator, (7)sec-tional diagram; autocad, illustrator, photoshop.
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Venice Film Museum Design for a film museum dedicated to Francis Ford Coppola, director of the film The Godfather. Through the analysis of cinematic mes en scene, in the film, a formal strategy and language emerged. The design entails a large piano nobile that houses exhibition and library spaces, while the top floor encapsulates auditorium spaces that look over the Venice water.
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From left clockwise:(1)elevations; graphite, (2)site plan; graphite, (3)study model; basswood, (4)Axon; graphite, (5)facade elevation; graph-ite, (6)study models site test; basswood, (7)study model; white plastic, (8)final model facade shot; basswood, mahogany wood, (9)final model interior shot; basswood.
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Personal Work
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From left:(1)sketch;ink, (2)sketch; graphite, (3) still life; oil pastels, (4) still life; charcoal.
35 Fairview Ave, Tarrytown, NY 10591 e: [email protected]: (914) 539 1551