Sameer-andrew rayyan LEED AP BD+C

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University of Virginia School of Architecture Charlottesville, USA

Masters of Architecture

Coventry School of Art and Design Coventry, United Kingdom

Masters of Design with Honors, Transportation Design

Ecole D’Arts Americaines Fontainebleau, France

UVA Vicenza Program Vicenza, Italy

Hong Kong Polytechnic University Kowloon, Hong Kong

W O R K E X P E R I E N C E

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Externship

LAKE | FLATO Architects Intern Architect

Residential and cultural institutions from concept, SD, through 100% DD. Contributed to design

decisions; interacted with clients and contractors; lead community engagement projects.

LAKE | FLATO Architects Externship

UVA Workstudy

Arch 2020 Studio: Rethinking Suburbia Teaching Assistant

Arch 2010 Studio: Invisible Cities Teaching Assistant

Arch 5800 Vicenza Program Drawing Teaching Assistant

Arch 1020 Lessons in Making Research Assistant

Arch 2150 Global Sustainability Project Leader / Teaching Assistant

Clean Energy Initiative project with Virginia Wind Energy Center, Albemarle County Schools k-12,

Virginia Discovery Museum

David Jameson Architect Externship

Photographer Various clients including UVA Provost for the Arts

Industrial Design Consultancy

Pitton Timepiece design for patented technologies

Spyrodyn LLC Multi-platform interfaces for residential security, green technologies

Design Engineering Services Incorporated Design for military transportation, daily commuter biking

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Vortex Competiton Public Award, Student Award

Team Leader, Lead Designer

Tappe-Barkley Fontainebleau Prize

Sarah McArthur NIX Travel Fellowship

“A Portrait of Making” Investigation of the realms of making: Cezanna, Rodin, Le Corbusier

AIA Northern Virginia Award

International Designer’s Workstation Competition 2nd Place

Furniture for design students to create environments that adapt to evolving creative processes.

Microsoft Research & Design Competition: Health and Wellness Winner

Interfaced with Parkinson’s disease community to develop music creation tool to encourage social

interaction and regular exercise to promote higher life quality.

A C C O M P L I S H M E N T S

NCARB 1948 Hours Approved

Austin Statemen Newspaper Austin Library Rendering, front Page

Auto & Design Journal

Bertone references thesis project with Alfa Romeo Pandion concept (Interior Motives, 2010)

New Designers Show, London

Oporto Show: Trade Fair of Design, Interiors and Architecture, Portugal

IDEO London Design House Project Co-Creator

Taught semester-long studio to reevaluate pedagogy of Automotive/Industrial Design department;

advised Dean’s panel on evolution of program, leading to thorough revision of course structure.

Microsoft Faculty Summit

Received positive feedback from Johns Hopkins University professors, IDEO co-founder Bill Moggridge

D I G I T A L T O O L S

Expert Sketchup Pro + Layout, Adobe Photoshop, Sefaira, Indesign, Illustrator, Rhinoceros, Wacom

Proficient Revit Architecture, Autocad, 3ds Max, Maxwell, Tas Ambiens, Openstudio, Ecotect

A C T I V I T I E S

Third Street Grackles Team Cyclist

Big Brother Big Sister Mentor

Passion For Antique Transportation, Photography, Coffee

Interest In Science, International Politics, Art & Design

SAMEER-ANDREW RAYYAN LEED AP BD+C

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1410 Grady Avenue Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 I 571-405-8151 I sar3dy@virginia.edu I srayy.com I References available upon request

secondary courtyards in ground zone raised bar wrapped in steel

library spans two zones

relation to landscape developed diagram

cooking in kitchen wall detail

roof detail

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Simple diagram to describe families of assemblies. Sketchup.

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ISOMETRIC VIEW OF DEVELOPED HOUSE

Work, sleep occurs in ground, Socializing raised aboved in celebration. Exposed house is wrapped in articulated perforated mesh skin to protect or allow the climate in.

Six of 14 diagrams describing developments of various desert house types.

DEVELOPMENT DIAGRAMS

This project deliberates on a desert house type. What is a prescription for living well in a desert condition?

Layed upon the hard land, a space to rest, a space to work, places to think and socialize.

DESERT HOUSE

Section describing construction details, users habits. Cuts through living room, dining room, bedrooms, and studio space. Mixed Media.

SECTION PERSPECTIVE EXPLODED ASSEMBLY

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This project deliberates on a desert house type. What is a prescription for living well in a desert condition?

Layed upon the hard land, a space to rest, a space to work, places to think and socialize.

DESERT HOUSE

1/8th in scale model. Seperates into two parts, revealing the interior. Basswood, Steel Mesh, Cardboard.

BASSWOOD SECTION MODEL

2 of ten illustrations of exterior and interior spatial and light qualities. Mixed media.

GREY TONE PERSPECTIVES

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Layed upon the hard land, a space to rest, a space to work, places to think and socialize. Days spent in the ground creating with our hands. Evenings upon the land as celebration. Take refuge back in the ground or peer up to the stars. Rituals that bring us closer to our existence.

Professors: WG Clark, Peter Waldman, Charlie Menefee, Nana Last, Robin Dripps, Karen Van Lengen

DESERT HOUSE

By placing The ambitions of The Roots of Music Program along an edge of Congo square, they become a catalyst for a reintroduction of Louis Armstrong Park. This engagement within the built environment between the community and the program serves to enrich the relationship between mentor and student.

This Culinary institute is tucked within the oldest part of the city. The Architecture is a building representation of the city’s urban make-up. The material hierarchy and construction logic addresses the same temporal issue that every structure surrounding the site does. How does one last in permanence while allowing for evolution to take place.

EL PELL DE TARONJA, VALENCIA SPAINROOTS OF MUSIC, NEW ORLEANSSTUDIO PROJECTS

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2 of seven. I was tasked near the deadline of this Lake |Flato / Turenscape collaboration to overhaul the images and to infuse a more true sense of Austin in them. Alterations include landscape species, entourage, design refinements and atmosphere. Photoshop

I was often responsible for creating images for client and public consumption. I concern myself with the materiality, personality of space, the nature of light, and tone of environments. My background in Automotive Design and Photography informs my process.

LAKE |FLATO ARCHITECTS RENDERING WALLER CREEK RENDERING

4 of twelve. Design is in early DD phase. It was nessesary to accurately convey textural and porosity information so to better inform the facade’s development. Photoshop.

NEW AUSTIN PUBLIC LIBRARY RENDERING

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The Witte is the most popular museum in San Antonio. This natural history museum is in need of expansion. Lake |Flato is helping envision this through a extensive renovation and phased expansion of its campus. The project faces severe challeges including, extensive floodzones, neighborhood ordinances, politics and the like. I saw this project from SD through 100% DD.

Careful attention has been paid to the approach. The museum’s street presencem and formal sensibility means to bring several types of visitor flows seamlessly together through a extended landscape promenaude. Color pencil drawings attributed to Matt Morris.

An active rain garden wraps the front of the building to releave water back towards the river. The front entrance bridges over this depression. The depression acts as a natural barrier between vehicles and children.

This revit model represents the existing campus with previous renovations, overlayed with our phased demolition, renovation and additions. We cut one building back by a third and inserted the Valero Great hall. A team effort, I was initially responsible for organizing the demolition and modelling the phase changes to the great hall.

APPROACH FROM PARKING LOT REVIT DESIGN DEVELOPMENT DOCUMENTSAPPROACH FROM BUSESTHE NEW WITTE MUSEUM

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The Witte is the most popular museum in San Antonio. This natural history museum is in need of expansion. Lake |Flato is helping envision this through a extensive renovation and phased expansion of its campus. The project faces severe challeges including, extensive floodzones, neighborhood ordinances, politics and the like. I saw this project from SD through 100% DD

This great arch welcomes you into the lobby framed by a large flying Quetzalcoatlus skeleton overhead. Inset into the stonework are fossils and footstep imprints. Color pencil drawing by Matt Morris.

The level of percision in this model supports the underlays of the color pencil drawing of Matt Morris.

This sketchup model ran in parallel with the revit model as to serve as conceptual modelling tool. The high level of detail supports realtime critique of various architectural and landscape concepts. I was responsible for a large portion of this model and was expected to develop design iterations.

This phase III building sits almost entirely on floodzone compromised land. Site’s trees will not be removed. building entrance acts as orientation space. Exterior is major event space while interior space supports the requirements needed for acceptance of international travelling exhibits.

VALERO GREAT HALL ENTRY SITE MODEL FOR VISUALIZATIONVALERO GREAT HALL MODEL CHANGING EXHIBIT BUILDINGTHE NEW WITTE MUSEUM

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S I T E P L A N SCALE: 1” = 50’

s. medina st.

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fire pit

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elevated tanning deck

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existing building

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surface parking

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bedroom tabulation

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townhouse parking

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2 bdrm x 15 units = 30

3 bdrm x 15 units = 45

3 bdrm x 16 units = 48

2 bdrm x 16 units = 32

3 bdrm x 1 units = 3

1 bdrm x 8 units = 8

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Built in 1908, this concrete frame, brick infill building processed and packaged peanuts. Closed in 1980, it has stood abandoned, derelict, and frequently occupied by squatters. The 20ft diameter silos are most impressive. The building is in fantastic structural condition.

Final design places two, double heigh loft-styled apartments in each of the four concrete (20ft dia) silos. Un-conditioned Vertical cirulation in front. Penthouse on fifth floor. Color pencil drawing attributed to Matt Morris.

Series of perspectives show life of young professional couples and college students living in housing throughout development. All units are secure, look toward courtyards, and have street access.

Took part in city planning commission meeting. compromises were reached in order to meet Ariel-access codes for this poorly sited historic building. Phase one includes 88 units and 65 parking spaces. Phase two include 78 units and 106 parking spaces.

ABANDONED SITE PHOTOGRAPHS TOWNHOMES AND APARTMENTSPEANUT FACTORY TOWER SITE PLAN

In collaboration with Matt Morris, Partner at Lake |Flato Architects. This concept package was created to attract investors, in order to bring new life to an abandoned peanut processing and distibution plant by housing young professionals and college students, so to revitalize this region of the city.

THE PEANUT FACTORY LOFTS

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Layered urbanization branching out from centers on US29 out to residential edges can meet housing deficits while providing access from the city center to the nation’s capitol.

Rerouting Amtrak lines along existing infrastructure and down US29 will better serve both the city and county’s growing population so as to provide efficient connections to the region. Twin gates placed at the edge of the ‘old city’ and the bounds of the Rivanna will frame continuing development and encourage a healthy density.

Along the highway, generous pedestrian bridges will stitch together formerly segregated citizens and generate central public spaces within the urban flows.

Neighborhood infill will improve urban mobility and weave tighter communities. Investments in the 29 corridor will establish the Charlottesville metropolitan area as a vital economic growth zone in the regionfor decades to come.

A proposal for economic growth of the charlottesville metropolitan area. Existing infrastructure is dotted with the provisional mundanity typical of American sprawl. Highway projects have further constricted the mobility of the landscape, dividing adjacent communities. Shifts in the urban city fabric have rendered the interstate railway’s location obstructive.

RESERVOIR STREET BRIDGE SECTION HYDRAULIC BRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD SECTIONRIO RIDGE BRIDGEBARRACK STATION

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Six week program in Veneto working with students to develop observational and represenational skills. Developed axonometric, plan, section, and perspective techniques as well as taught course on figure drawing.

VICENZA PROGRAM, ITALY

Extensive study of architecture and objects of Atelier. Work presented in “Portrait of Making” exhibit, 2014.

Conveying information visually is one of the most important abilities an Architect can harness. Describing what we see and what we imagine with accuracy and richness enables us to engage others in a

DIRECT OBSERVATION DRAWING ATELIER CEZANNE, AIX EN PROVINCE

Carlo Scarpa’s walled garden. One of four drawings. Pen.

QUERINI-STAMPALIA, VENICE

Set of drawings to describe spatial organization of Immelluble 24. Perspectives include studio and roof garden. Work presented in “Portrait of Making” exhibit, 2014.

ATELIER LE CORBUSIER, PARIS

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Thesis project. How can design inform wildfire fighting strategies. Helitanker houses all required system and is center of mass sits on center directly beneath rotors. Formally it is inspired by a flame and is intended to appeal to the automotive designer. Showcased at New Designers Show in London.

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Polygon modelling in 3Ds Max. Milled in seven parts on five axis machine. Glued together, surfaced by hand and professionally painted. Dimensions 1.4m Long x .5m tall High density foam.

1/20TH SCALE PHYSICAL MODELHELITANKER

Sameer-andrew rayyan LEED AP BD+C