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ARCHITECTURE & DESIGNS e l e c t e d P o r t f o l i o 2 0 1 0

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CAREER ABSTRACT

Leon Lai is a Self-motivated and contributingarchitecture student seeking for his 5tharchitectural internship at an innovativedesign rm that encourages collaborativeenvironment and the duality of research andexperiment.

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RECOGNITION PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Awards

Publications

EDUCATION

University of WaterlooCandadate for Honors Bachelor of

Architectural Studies, graduating 2011

Albert Campbell C. I.2006 O.S.S.D. with Honor Standing

Assisted in the Schematic Design, Design Development and Site Plan drawings for Trinity Lofts and 90 Niagara Condominiums, with direct coordi

client, structural, marketing and visualization consultants Involved in the master-planning and design of a large-scale mixed-use develoBrampton, Ontario and responsible for an 80 page design booklet presented to

Conceptual design and presentations for various hospitality projects includiLees restaurant, The Keg and OCAD diner

Involved with the Drywall and Millwork Tenders as well as the Constructionfor Maple Leaf Square Fine Dining Restaurant

Participated in the design of various small scale residential renovation projresponsible for a small interior custom renovation millwork and detail packa

Assisted in the St. Thomas Elgin Hospital renovation mast er-planning busiincluding hospital room templates, area calculati ons, decanting & phasing drawell as consultant coordination.

Responsible for the St. Josephs Diagnostic Imaging department design set, sptackled challenges regarding structure, circulation, code requirements, areequipment layouts.

Assisted in the CDs and interior nish presentations for the Canadian ChKazakhstan.

Created the AIA awards submission drawing set for Assuta hospital in Tel Av

Responsible for helping 1st year students with their work during class time. Evaluated assignments and answered questions during the rest of the week. FormZ 6.5 and the Adobe Creative Suite 3.

Involved with the master-planning and schematics design for the West Side Rproject, created presentation drawings, renders, physical models, booklecalculations as well as zoning and rewall regulation drawings.

Assisted in the early stage of concept design for the Boston Jumeirah Hotel Pfrom massing development to schematics design including iterative studydiagrams and presentation drawings.

Produced various interior nish and equipment tender packages for condominiums.

Involved with the schematics designs of 2 sales centers, including site measurdemolition inspections, 2D design drawings and 3D renderings.

Created the Green Living Show Booth construction drawing set, from concepmillwork detailing to assisting on-site for the construction of the booth.

QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS

PERSONAL INTERESTSREFERENCES

EnglishCantoneseMandarinItalian (basic)

Fine Art & Photographycontinue to practice at adrawing studio outsideof school

Reliable & Positive Attitude Adept LearnerSelf-motivatedIndependentOutstanding Team-playerCritical Thinker24/7 Energetic Artist

Travelvisited much of bigNorth (Canada), fromBanff to PeggysCove; Italy is just thebegining for Europe

Hand Drafting &Model MakingMS Ofce 07DreamWeaver & CSSPhotoshop, InDesign,Illustrator CS4

Adobe Premiere AutoCAD 07-10

Activeracquetsports:badminton,tennis, squash

3D Studio Max 2007-9FormZ 6.5Rhinoceros 4RhinoScript &Grasshopper

Vray R3 for 3DS & RhinoGoogle SketchUP 7

Film & Cinematographyan avid movie watcher,enjoys writings onlms, also interestedin creating shortanimations and shortlms

Available upon request.

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3B Studio Outstanding Design Award

SSEF UP! Steel Tower Competition Award of Merit

Canadian Arch. Assoc.s Ignition Competition 1st Team Prize

University of Waterloo Entrance Scholarship

Grade 9 Piano and History with Honors

Exhibitor in 10 Waterloo Year-End Project Review: Abrupt(ure): P.S.1

Canadian Architecture Students Association National Portfolio

Publication: Amplifying RareSpace Exhibitor in the 09 Waterloo Year-End Project Review: A ConjointCultural Identity

Refer to Detail: 08 Visual Communication Class Publication

Advantage Steel Magazine SSEF UP! Steel Tower Award of Merit

2010 January - AugustGiannone Petricone Associates Architects Toronto-Internship

2009 April - AugustZeidler Partnership Architects Toronto- Internship

2009 January - AprilTeacher Assistant Visual Comm. 113 University of Waterloo Course Professor: Mark Cichy

2008 August - DecemberKohn Pederson Fox Associates New York- Internship

2008 January - AprilTAS DesignBuild Toronto- Intern Designer

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PROFESSIONAL WORK

p.12Bringing Green HomeTAS DesignBuild, Toronto

p.133 Wells Hill- House AdditionGiannone Petricone Associates, Toronto

p. 14Eastern & Trinity LoftsGiannone Petricone Associates, Toronto

p. 15Boston Jumeirah HotelKohn Pedersen Fox, NY

p.16-17The West Side Rail YardsKohn Pedersen Fox, NY

OTHER

p.18New York Times Building Study3rd Year Philip Beesley Studio

ACADEMIC PROPOSALS

p. 4-5Porous Densication2nd Year Kathy Velikov Studio

p.6 Abrupt(ure): P.S.1 MoMa3rd Year Maya Przybylski Lab/Studio

p. 7-8 Amplication of rareSpace2nd Year Geoffrey Thun Studio

p. 9 Atlantic City Holocaust Memorialcompetition 10

p. 10-11 A Conjoint Cultural Identity3rd Year Philip Beesley Studio

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residential complex | 2nd year studio 07 4 | architecture | urbanism | landscape | designbuild | resear

PorousDensicationLocation: Queen Street Eas t, TorontoTypology: Residential Complex____________________________2nd year Kathy Velikov studio

Composed of volumes and voids,groupings of townhouses and3-5 storey mid-rise apartmentdwelling units allow sunpenetration into the city block.The ow of courtyards shared byevery 2 units express a uniquecommunal urban lifestyle. Inorder to provide light for the rearend of the courtyards and diffuse

UNDERGROUND PARKING

GROUND FLOOR

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3RD FLOOR

4TH FLOOR

5TH FLOOR

6TH FLOOR

7TH FLOOR

Form & Spatial Concepts

Circulation Diagram (Illustrator)

Massing Block Courtyard Opening Liberated Ground Plane Overall Building Slope Sunken Public Space Site Plan (CAD + Illustrator)

Ground Floor Plan

Typical Floor Plan (CAD & Photoshop)

East & North Elevation (FormZ & Photoshop)

light into corridors, light wellsare introduced. Deep terracesprovide an immense amountof natural light for the building,making all adjacent units intocorner suites; encouraging activegardening, vegetable cultivation,and social interaction betweenneighbors.

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6 | architecture | urbanism | landscape | designbuild | researcourtyard intervention | 3rd year computational studio 09

Abrupt(ure): P.S.1 MoMaLocation: Long Island Cit y, New York Typology: Temporary Installat ion___________________________3rd year Maya Przybylski lab/ studio

The courtyard installation is a continuousartifact that creates a uid transitionalarea where the ground begins to eruptand split, creating various elevationdifferentiations, achieving an articial,

artistic landscape. We are interested in

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Surface Panels- 2xCopperMesh, distortedMoire pattern

Panel Framing- providessupportforlighting andmist

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Rendered Plan + Interior of Installation (Rhino + Grasshopper, 3DS, Photoshop)

Form Computation + Generation (Grasshopper + Rhino, 3DS)

Form Evolution

Form Components

Structure Generation

Surface Subdivision

Exploded Structure StudySurface Morphology Analysis

Geometry Generation Framework

Longitudinal Section

1:50 Physical Model- 1459 pieces of laser-cut sectio

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7 | architecture | urbanism | landscape | designbuild | researperformance landscape | 2nd year studio 07

Amplication ofRareSpace

Location: Cambridge, CanadaTypology: Outdoor PerformanceLandscape__________________________2nd year Geoffrey Thun Studio

The amplication of the experiencesof rareSPACE exploits our 3 dominantsenses--audition of sound, sight andtouch. Employing these 3 elementsas a design structure, a frameworkof open-ended experiences are setup for the users.

The uniqueness of the material paletteand the uctuating, sometimes limitedvisibility in the eld constitute to anemphasis of a constant acoustical datum.Controlled by visibility and materiality ofthe spaces, users wander and listen tothe landscape, moving from one soundto the next.

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Sound Reection

Sound Amplication

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Concrete walls

Insulated buildwith perfo

Perforated copper sheets diffuse andcollect sound

Hollow concrete walls with glulamstructure increase reverberation ofsound

Curving wall composed galvanized steel pipes ofdifferent lengths

Diagrammatic Plan- architectural components and their materiality

Concept Experiential Section- lter, approach, reveal and enclose

Initial Natural Phenomenon Studies- observe, isolate, enhance and iterate Relationship to river and nearby park trails

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8 performance landscape | 2nd year studio 07

Entry Sound Box Tunnel Multi-purpose Auditorium Vocal and Dance Hall

Longitudinal Site Section

Performance Space Section

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a guideds equence ofe xperientialp erformancespaces

1:200 Physical Site Model

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9 | architecture | urbanism | landscape | designbuild | researatlantic city holocaust memorial | competition 10

Re-claimingScarred SpaceLocation: Boardwalk, Atlantic CityTypology: Public Memorial_________________________

Atlantic City Holocaust MemorialCompetition

We began by accepting the axiom that the scars left by the Holocaustare permanent in spite of continual attempts to deemphasize it throughtime. But there must be hope nevertheless, and means by which theHolocaust survivor - burdened with the responsibility to summon andretell their stories lest our societies fall into the same inhumane pathagain - can reconcile their paradoxical desires to move on and to notforget concurrently.

Thus we must reclaim the scar.

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Emergence of VoidsSeparation of Past & PresentUnyielding Grid of Atlantic City

Atlantic Boardwalk- Existing Pavillion on Site

Voids Emerge from the Historical Grid- City Connects with the Past once more (Rhino + 3DS + Photoshop) Plan- Mitigating Zone between City and Nature

Extent of Site

Permanent Yielding of Scars Puncturing of the Fragile Present Layer

The site is envisioned as a zone of anti-life wheretime can be paused, convention inversed and theconsequences of the past - the scars - resurfaced asa grid of voids that emerges from an equally static,historical and unyielding grid of the city. The void tous is the anti-architecture that accurately depicts adeconstructed and absented past where all ephemeralqualities accumulated are eradicated.

A fragile presenthe elusive exteboardwalks winvites the pedthe site, to the vthe layer is denied, tand re-orientconfronting thof the absented(Rhino + 3DS

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10 | architecture | urbanism | landscape | designbuild | researministry of culture | 3rd year studio 09

A ConjointCultural IdentityLocation: Queens Park, TorontoTypology: Ofce + Retail Complex__________________________3rd year Philip Beesley Studio

A proposed centre for the Ministry andother cultural education facilities, thebuidling redenes the idea of a trulypublic civic complex, also including retail,restaurants, library and an exhibitionspace. The liberated ground oor

gallery welcomes pedestrian trafc; thesuspended, interconnected programsabove are spatially attached to theground. This project explores the poeticidentity and experience of working in acity.

Circulation Diagram

Diagrammatic Massing ModelGround Plan (CAD & Photoshop)

Site Plan

Extension of Existing

Suspend interconnecte

Enclosed with a Trans

3rd Floor Plan 4th Floor Plan

Massing Model featuring transparent skin

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the u nrestricted and c ivilnature of the ministry ofculture encourages aninterconnected, m ulti-leveledpublic realm

View from the 3rd oor looking down (Rhino, Vray & Photoshop)

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View from Ground Floor Green Lane (Rhino, Vray & Photoshop)

Program Organization Studies

Exploded Building Axo (Rhino & Illustrator)

Conguration of the major Columns, Boxes and supporting Trusses (CAD & Illustrator)

The Facade gives a Transparent Reading of the Building (CAD & Photoshop)

The Section demonstrates the layered public realm (CAD & Photoshop)

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12 | architecture | urbanism | landscape | designbuild | researpresentation booth | TAS DesignBuild 08

Bringing green Home

Center Lattice Wall Detail

Millwork Details

Plan from CD set Photos of Finished Booth Interior

Concept Renders and Elevation (CAD & SketchUP)

Location: Toronto, CanadaTypology: Presentation BoothSq. Footage: 3000 sq. ftPhase: Complete design andconstruction_______________________TAS DesignBuild, Toronto

initial research and conceptualpresentation

2D and 3D design drawings produced much of the construction

package structural and millwork detailing on-site assistance and coordination

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| architecture | urbanism | landscape | designbuild | resear13 house addition | Giannone Petricone 10

Location: TorontoTypology: Residential AdditionSq. Footage: 1,500 sq. ft.Phase: Design Development__________________________Giannone Petricone Assocs, Toronto

Ground Floor Plan

Overall Massing- addition wraps around cornor of hoSection showing existing house + addition

Elevations

3 Wells Hill-House Addition

Wood ceiling folds into back of entrance seating; moving plains leave traces of light (Rhino + 3DS)

deliberate play of intersecting volumnes, surfacesand materials; the layered addition anchors into theexisting buidling

conceptual and design development of house additionusing both CAD and 3D visualizations

assisted with building permit application drawing set

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| architecture | urbanism | landscape | designbuild | researresidential complex | 2nd year studio 0714

Eastern & TrinityLofts

Curved facade esblishes a sinuous setback at street intersection

Convergence point of 2 major streets (3DS)Ground Floor

Unit Plans- 20 Layouts in Total

View towards Toronto Downtown- image done by visualization consultant

East Elevation

Typical 2-4 Floor

Location: Toronto, CanadaTypology: Residential CondoSq. Footage: 62,000 sq. ftPhase: Schematic and DesignDevelopment__________________________Giannone Petricone Assocs, Toronto

assisted from massing conceptto detailed building design

delegated closely withdeveloper and variousconsultants including planning,structural, mechanical,visualization and marketing

Site Plan Approval packagefor City of Toronto

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15 | architecture | urbanism | landscape | designbuild | researhotel residence | Kohn Pedersen Fox 08

BostonJumeirah HotelLocation: Boston, MassachusettsTypology: HotelClient: Jumeirah HotelSq. Footage: 730,000 sq. ftPhase: Schematics Design__________________________Kohn Pedersen Fox, NY

plans and sections drawings

for client meetings prepared quick 3D exterior

massing renderings constructed iterative massing

study models and site forpresentation and analysis

prepared engaging conceptualdiagrams

Massing / Views Diagram (CAD, Illustrator & Photoshop)Plans (CAD & Photoshop)

Programmatic section (Cad + Illustrator) A series of massing iterations focus on the irregularity of t he site,sightlines and draw major massing inuences from adjacent buildings

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17 | architecture | urbanism | landscape | designbuild | researurban development | Kohn Pedersen Fox 08

Plaza Level

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5

Skylobby

Roof Garden

Typical Tower Low

East YardsP odium + Towers

West Elevation (CAD and Photoshop)

Typical Ofce Tower Layouts

1:50 Master-planning Model: East Yards Superblock and Tow

1:50 Physical Model (Museum Board and Laser-cut Plexi)

CAD plans red-lining + typical oor layouts construction of a component-based physical model rendered elevations high-lighting the juxtaposition of the

tower volumes programming development + area calculations various retail proposal booklets

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