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MWmila wigginsStudent ID # 20269627355 Grand River Blvd. Kitchener, ON 519.894.3949N2A 3H7 mila.wiggins@gmail.com

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academic6 boutique hotel8 Pop Up Play12 aligned house14 biblioteca Ostiense18 trans(L)it20 a chair for Richard Serra

professional22 fairview library24 wood street elementary school26 St. Joseph’s Church

independent28 habadapt

29 artistic works

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EducationCandidate for Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Honours Co-operative Education Program, University of Waterloo, Cambridge, ON, September 2007- Present

Candidate for a Certificate in French, University of Waterloo

University of Waterloo School of ArchitectureRome Programme Fall 2012

Relevant CoursesDesign Studio: residential design, hospitality design, small scale infrastructure, urban and rural master planning

Environmental Building Design, Building Construction: Wood and Steel, Acoustics and Lighting

Cultural History: understanding of key issues and ideas related to architecture and culture from antiquity to present day

Visual Communications: completed courses on hand rendering and sketching, as well as digital modeling and rendering in Form Z

Graduate of Eastwood Collegiate Institute,

AttributesEnthusiastic and detail-oriented individual with a love of designWork well independently and as a member of a teamOrganized and able to complete tasks on timeKnowledge of LEED TM environmental design benchmark

Technical SkillsManual Drafting and Rendering: ink, pencil, watercolour, acrylic, pastelPhysical Model Making: basswood, cardstock, mat board, foam core, plexi glass

Computer SkillsMac OS/X or Windows XP/Vista operating systemsAutoCAD 2010 SketchUp 7Adobe Photoshop CS4 Form Z 6.5Adobe InDesign CS4 Microsoft OfficeAdobe Illlustrator CS4 Rhinocerous 3DFlamingo VRay Basic VB Scripting and Grasshopper

LanguagesFluent English, basic to intermediate written and spoken French

MWmila wigginsStudent ID # 20269627355 Grand River Blvd. Kitchener, ON 519.894.3949N2A 3H7 mila.wiggins@gmail.com

Exhibited WorksthinkToronto Urban Design Ideas Competition, Spacing Magazine, Toronto, ON, Winter 2009Trans(L)it bus shelter project selected as a finalist

Featured in Spacing Magazine Winter 2009issueDisplayed at Toronto City Hall January 2009Displayed at Urban Space Gallery, Toronto, ON, February 2009

Juxtaposition Exhibition, Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener City Hall, Kitchener, ON, February 2007 Acrylic paintings displayed in Eastwood Collegiate Institute’s graduating art class exhibition

AwardsQueen Elizabeth II Aiming for the Top Scholarship received from University of Waterloo, 2007

Outstanding Achievement in Technical Design received from Eastwood Collegiate Institute, 2007

Professional ExperienceSenior Architectural Co-op StudentMMMC Architects, Kitchener, ONJanuary 2013 - May 2013Construction documents for school renova-tions, and a hospice project.Coordination, and documentation of site plan approval application, and documents for school renovation projects.Produced site instruction, and proposed change sketches, and reports.Mentored a high school co-op student.

Architectural StudentMMMC Architects, Kitchener, ONJanuary 2012 - September 2012Performed administrative tasks on daily basis including answering the phone, and organizing the mail.Worked alongside a team in the prepara-tion of construction documents for several renovation/additions to several elementary schools, as well as a new elementary.Responsible for the production and coordi-nation of interior elevations, reflected ceil-ing plans, millwork details, door schedules, and selected details.

Junior Architectural AssistantMakrimichalos Cugini Architects, Toronto, ON, May 2011 - September 2011

Managed and organized the material & sam-ple and catalogue library by meeting with andcontactng sales representativesProduced interior and exterior sample fin-ishes boards for client reviewCreated digital and physical presentation models for client reviewUsed as built drawings to create record drawings for project archives

Extracurricular Activities

March 2011Canstruction Waterloo Region, Waterloo, ON

January 2011 to presentMember Waterloo Architecture Student Association (WASA)

January 2009 - September 2009Homer Watson House and Gallery, Kitchener, ON

May 2009Southampton Art School, Southampton, ON

Participated in fine art workshops

References Available Upon Request

An urban hotel designed for a large site in Downtown Cambridge, ON. The hotel is designed around a central line of circulation that links the key public program areas of spa, lobby, and restaurant. This circulation line is interrupted at various moments with troughs, and pools of water that create for a calm, and romantic atmosphere.

2A Studio: “On the Needs of Travellers”• Fall 2009 • Individual

Water Street Perspective

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WATER

Main Floor Plan

South Elevation

Kitchen

Lobby

Fitness Room

Spa

Restaurant

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boutique hotel

The purpose of this studio was to use computational theory to design a Pop Up somewhere along Queen Street in Toronto. The project is a Pop-Up sports equipment rental facility, and park bench infrastructure designed for Trinity Bellwoods Park in the Queen West area of Downtown Toronto. The main computational strategy used is that of the lofted curve. One is based on the sports geometry. The other on the seating geometry.

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View of landscape side of park.

3B Studio: System Stalker Lab• Fall 2011

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POPPop Up Play

POPPop Up Play

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View towards tennis courts.

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An urban infill ecohouse project designed for a site between a church and a house in Kitchener, ON. The Aligned house is designed around a linear open concept plan to provide for good ventilation and daylighting. Other sustainable strategies include the use of a concrete footing foundation to minimize site disturbance, the use of SCIP panels in construction, concrete floors to provide thermal mass, and the use of many reclaimed and recycled materials.

Interior Rendering of Main Floor in Kitchen/Dining

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ECOAligned House

Seating section.

Sports section

Ground Floor

Winter Solstice Daylighting Summer Solstice ShadingMain Wall Construction

Second Floor Third Floor

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2A Environmental Design: Applied Principles • Fall 2009 • Team

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4A Rome Studio: Via Ostiense • Fall 2012 • Team

A digital media library and art gallery on the Via Ostiense in Rome. Ostiense is still a develop-ing neighbourhood in Rome that was once an industrial centre of the city’s South end. Today, the area is characterized by an urban art cul-ture as well as a student population from Roma Tre University. Biblioteca sees to provide a new destination for Ostiense combining the arts, and education into one complex.

The building is organized around a gallery podi-um slab from which two volumes that house the digital media centre, and library intersect. These volumes are rotated towards the Gazometer, an important industrial artifact, and also Roma Tre.To suggest the differing programs, each volume has an opposing type of core. The digital centre is about knowledge and ideas to the outside, therefore having a closed core, while the library is seen as more internal space with an open core.

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Digital Arts Centre Library

Art Gallery

GasometersOstiense

Roma Tre Urban Connection

Riverscape arts

Piazza

Tiber

Solid Core:Central Programs

Hollow Core:Central Courtyard

ROMABiblioteca Ostiense

View from Street.

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Restaurant Kitchen

Restaurant

Lounge

Meeting Room

Small Lab

Small Lab

Small Lab

Mezzanine GalleryBar

Bar

Lab

Office

Office

Office

Lab

ROMABiblioteca Ostiense

Gallery View

Piazza View

Mezzanine Level

Upper Floor

Leave a Book Rotate a PhraseTake a Book A book exchange bus shelter design for the thinkToronto Spacing Magazine Competition. Trans(L)it’s goal is to promote literacy as well as multiculturalism in the City of Toronto through the spreading of books in all languages.

•2A Studio • Fall 2008 • Team • Finalist in Spacing Magazine’s thinkToronto Competition Winter 2009

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Acrylic Book Boxes

Cedar Benches

Multi-LanguageWord Game

Assembly Diagram

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BUSTrans(L)it

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CHAIRfor RICHARD SERRA•2B Structural Design • Fall 2011 • Team

Seating is sculpture.Sculpture is magnetic.

Magnetic is moving.Moving is progressive.

Progressive is dynamic.Dynamic is propelling.Propelling is deluding.Deluding is abstract. Abstract is refined.

Refined is simple.Simple is minimal.

Minimal is the form which one sees as a simple object, It is a refinedcreation that pulls one closer to observe, It is the abstract entity that

deludes the observer, yet propels them into a dynamic experience, It is progressive in the sense that it encourages movement, and it is

magnetic in the sense that it keeps one engaged, It is sculpture; it is seating; it is a chair.

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A renovation and addition project of the Fairview branch of the Toronto Public Library. I worked on a team where I was responsible for various presentation materials including a SketchUp model and physical model.

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Toronto Public Library: Fairview Branch Addition

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PROMAKRIMICHALOS CUGINI ARCHITECTS

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Wood Street Catholic Elementary School

Wood Street Catholic Elemetary School is a proposed new school for 300 students in Brantford, Ontario. As part of a design team, I was responsible for the production and coordination of interior elevations, millwork details, and reflected ceiling plans.

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PROMMMC ARCHITECTS

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St. Joseph’s Church Addition

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A prefab house designed to a footprint of 37.5m2. The design incorporates a three season terrace that creates a transitional indoor/ outdoor space in the house. Sliding doors provide natural ventilation and shoji screens provide flexible divisons between spaces.

1 Kitchen 2 Living/ Dining 3 Louvered Patio 4 Patio 5 Bedroom 6 Study 7 Bathroom 8 Balcony

Independent Submission for Prefab20*20 Competition • Summer 2009

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