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Bianca Weeko Martin

Selected Works

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Bianca Weeko Martine: bweeko@gmail.comt: (647)-822-8629

Work

Education

JAN 2016-MAY 2016

2014-2019

MAY 2015- AUG 2015

JAN 2015-

Architectural AssistantDrawing Room ArchitectureMelbourne, Australia

Candidate for Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Honours, Co-opUniversity of WaterlooCambridge, Ontario, Canada

Architectural InternP.T. Mahesa Sarana CiptaDenpasar, Bali, Indonesia

Undergraduate Director (volunteer)BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + DesignCambridge, Ontario, Canada

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Awards

Exhibitions

Skills

Languages

2014-

MAY 2016

2015

JULY 2016

3D

2014

AUG 2015

2014

JUN 2011

2D

ETC

Excellent Academic Standing (Average of 80% or higher)University of Waterloo

12:50 Gallery Group Exhibition, Tuxedo Cat293 La Trobe St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

International Experience AwardUniversity of Waterloo

SWEET 16 Exhibition, Blank Canvas Gallery1544 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rhino 3D, Maxwell Render, V-Ray, SketchUp, Grasshopper

Indonesian, Malaysian, Basic French

President’s Scholarship (Admissions average of 90% to 94.9%)University of Waterloo

Pop Up Group Art Exhibition, 416 Gallery404 Queen St. East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Visual Arts ScholarshipCardinal Carter Academy for the Arts

United Nations Environment Programme ExhibitionEvergreen Brickworks, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere, AfterEffects), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)Physical Modeling, Hand Drafting, Laser Cutting, 3D Printing, Tra-ditional Woodshop Tools, Painting, Drawing, Sculpting

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Galt Centre for Immigrants

Post-War Housing for Syria

St. Clair Library

Cushion for Nuit Blanche

O.S.P.

Work Experience

Personal Artwork

Table of Contents

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Galt Centre for Immigrants2A Design StudioSupervised by Adrian Blackwell

My proposed building is a home for immigrants and new citizens. It has two purposes: the first is to create a welcom-ing and accepting community for immi-grants of all nationalities and, by doing so, fulfill the second purpose, which is to become a source of cultural education for the white-majority city of Cambridge. The goal of this project is to create an institution that actively seeks to support new citizens.

Shared Facilities

Residential Units

Stairs

Public Program

Axonometric View

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Families from foreign countries flock to city centres like Toron-to and Vancouver because of connections they have to family and to friends of family and to friends of friends of family, all of whom have already established themselves in these metropolises and are able to provide a support system during a time of intense transitional stress. However, these

support systems come at a cost. Housing prices in such city cen-tres only continue to skyrocket, but new citizens seem to seek comfort and familiarity before they seek economical housing. My building proposal sits at this disparity between dwelling cost and rate of immigration in places such as Toronto and Cambridge.

Interior Perspective

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Ground Floor Plan

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Floors 4-6 Plans

Floors 2-3 Plans

The Galt Centre for Immigrants en-gages its residents and the citizens of Galt through the outdoor playground and pizza oven as well as the commu-nal dining connecting the two wings of upper floor residences. The dining halls provide views of the Grand Riv-er and encourage meaningful rela-tionships between the residents of the building.

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Building Section

Physical Model with Resin

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Exterior Perpsective

Building Section

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St. Clair Library

With the growing infiltration of elec-tronic media in our lives, it is easy to see why people are pressured to “choose sides” when it comes to dig-ital and analog technology. Rather than devoting oneself entirely to ei-ther (and, as with all things, create op-position towards the other) one should see the two strands of information as bodies that can co-exist and perhaps blur together. Traditional forms of information should be preserved and valued while technological advance-ments be made inclusive. The St. Clair Library design seeks to create a non-binary dichotomy between these different spaces, and foster interdis-ciplinary social interactions between groups of people that may be able to learn through their differences.

1B Design StudioSupervised by Donald McKay

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Exterior Render

Ground Floor Plan

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Upper Level Floor Plans

Exterior Render

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Building Section

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Post-War Housing for SyriaCompetition Entry for MatterBetter In Collaboration with Joshua MacDonald and Johnathan Subendran

The civil war in the Syrian Arab Republic created the biggest ref-ugee crisis after the World War II. According to UNHCR, over 4 300 000 people have left the country and fled to Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, and Europe. While world leaders are looking for the international solution of the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis, many Syrians are looking forward to the opportunity to return to their homes once the war is over.

Living conditions in the current refugee camps and temporary buildings across Europe and oth-er countries are mostly inhuman, while the towns the refugees once called home are in ruins. While the housing scarcity crisis is the main problem in need of an architectural solution, a considerable degree of important must also be placed on creating comfortable and dignified homes that will remain sustainable for generations of occupants.

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Exterior Render

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Base Unit Floor Plan

Unit Axonometric

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Building Section

Courtyard Perspective

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O.S.P. (Oriented Strand Playscape)2B Design StudioIn Collaboration with Kelsey Dawson, Genna Kalvaitis, Eric Oh, Amanda Reyes-Martin, Jeff So

O.S.P. (Oriented Strand Playscape) was a design-build project that oc-cupied an interstitial space on the perimeter of the School of Architec-ture building. The installation was conceived with the intention of cre-ating modular 2ft x 2ft x 2ft ‘blocks’ that would be able to stand alone as furniture or storage pieces after the eventual disassembly of the installa-tion, thus prolonging the project’s lifetime and lessening the environ-mental impact significantly.

As a fully assembled installation, the playscape facilitates the experi-ence of walking through a sculptur-ally articulated canal, and provides spaces for moments of play, climb-ing, crawling, sitting, and interac-tion with other people.

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Exterior View: Assembled

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Axonometric Drawing

Plan and Elevation

4 units 2 units 1 unit 2 units 11 units

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Exterior View (Disassembled)Exterior View (Assembled)

As stand-alone modular blocks, the OSP takes on four forms: the space frame, the fully enclosed cube, the slope, and the step. Each of these can facilitate various everyday pas-times such as sitting, reading, eat-ing, meeting with friends, and stor-age for books or plants.

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Cushion for Nuit BlancheIn Collaboration with F_RMlabToronto, Ontario

CUSHION: An Interactive Media Womb is an installation set to be exhibited in Toronto Nuit Blanche 2016 beside the Bata Shoe Museum.

The contemporary city is a space of sensory overload. On the night of Nuit Blanche in particular, crowds emerge to roam amongst a cacopho-ny of stimulation: from imagery and noise, to movement and smell. Our project seeks to provide a cushioned ‘media womb’ where visitors can re-flect in isolation and comfort.

Enter a refuge fro the chaos - an al-leyway turned into a place of con-templation by otherworldly beings of plastic and air. These huddled volumes can respond to changes in light from your shadow, pres-sure from your touch, or the sound of your voice as you move between them.

Exterior Render

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Section through Alley

The CUSHION installation will be comprised of twenty “sentient” cush-ion-like beings, each responding to touch or proximity through light, growth and shrinking, and colour. Make sure to come out to this year’s Nuit Blanche to see the installation in action!

Physical Site Model

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work Experience: Drawing RoomWinter 2016 InternshipMelbourne, Australia

Drawing Room Architecture is a young architecture firm with a fo-cus on sustainability in small-scale builds.

As an architectural assistant, I worked closely with the head archtiect to assist in all things needed to design, document, pres-ent, procure and build residential and commercial architecture. I produced drawing sets and renders for a variety of projects including an extension on a house in the Macedon mountain ranges and in the suburb of Brunswick.

Macedon - Exterior Perspectives

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Macedon - Interior Elevations

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St David St

St David St - Existing and Proposed Ground Floor Plans

In the St David St project, I had a significant involvement in meet-ings with clients and builders, documentation of existing space, production of working drawings for the kitchen renovation and of exterior renders for client approval, and material selections. Although working simultaneously on an array of other projects at the office, through St David St I came to a better understanding of building relationships with clients as well as the way in which an architectural project comes to fruition.

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St David St - Building Sections

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Personal Artwork

Desa (Village in Bali)Oil on Canvas

2015

AquaphobiaOil on Canvas

2014

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KandaPencil Crayon on Paper

2015

Why Can’t People Stop Talking About ThemselvesAcrylic on Canvas

2016

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Thank you.