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education_ Wentworth Institute of

Technology - Boston/MA

Masters in Architecture 3.6 GPA / may 2012B.S. in Architecture

3.4 GPA / aug 2011

skills_Proficiency in AutoCAD

PhotoShop CS6InDesign

Illustrator CS6Adobe

SketchupArtlantis

Micorsoft Office

Background in several art medium and

excellence in Hand drafting

Hand rendering model making

web designgraphic design

branding designvisual design/

merchandising

benjamin lebel_Macy’s Herald Sq _ Windows Visual Team Freelance Work _ Visuals / Residential / Hospitality march/13 -

jan/13 -

WestElm _ Visuals Associate and Design ConsultantWorked in the Boston store and the Flagship Broadway store in New York, as well as traveling to area stores with corporate to assist in the design and layout of the retail environment and design of store instillations.

Behnisch Architekten / Boston _ Architectural InternWorked in the Behnisch Architekten/Boston office, producing schematic and explorative large scale, sectional and detail models of a project at Amherst College.

Wentworth Institute of Technology _Studio Instructor Worked with first and second year students, teaching them drawing techniques, design strategies - helping and guiding their investigations into their first independent studio design projects.

Taylor + Burns Architects / Boston _ Architectural InternWorked in the office on rebranding literature, formatting client presentations, schematic design solutions, construction/detail drawings and worked on several presentation models.

Revit CourseLEED Seminar

BSA Space _ Horizon Project Studio collaborative instillation designed from our individual and collective experiences traveling through Big Bend + Marfa, Texas

SHIFTboston _ Design/Build Publication _ Horizon Project blog.shiftboston.org/2011/12/horizon

ab/ArchitectureBoston _ Design/Build Publication _ www.architects.org/architectureboston/articles/considered-design-built

experience_

publications_

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feb/11 – jan/13

june – sept/12

aug/11– may/12

june – sept/10

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sept/11 – mar/12

dec/11

may/12



Elizabeth Roberts Designs / Brooklyn _ Currently producing digital models and digital renderings for several high-end residential renovations.Stroudsmoor Country Inn / Stbg/PA _ Interior redesign of several 200 year-old cabins.



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Elizabeth Roberts interior renderings

2013

Freelance interior renderings produced

for Elizabeth Roberts / Ensemble Architects in

Brooklyn.These images are digitally

produced from a SketchUP model and represent a complete brownstone

renovation project in Park slope.

I have also worked on renderings of other

brownstones and loft renovations in Brooklyn and

Manhattan.



blebel homeestablished 2013



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blebel homeestablished 2013



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blebel homefreelance furniture design



the horizontexas_boston

fall 2011



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the horizontexas_boston

fall 2011

“Horizon” is the result of a 15-week Special

Topics Studio conducted at Wentworth Institute of

Technology, designed and fabricated by 13 graduate students. The conceptual

generator for the work was a 10-day trip, from

New York to the immense landscape of West Texas.

The resulting installation finds its inspiration in the three themes that came from observations made

collectively during the immersive trip into the

desert landscape, Scale/Scalelessness, Density

& Horizon. The first two, scale and density act as the vehicles for revealing

the last, the phenomena of the horizon. The horizon is dominant in the southwest and joins all the elements of ground and sky, from a distance to the immediate

foreground. This phenomena is lost in the city so it

became the studio’s goal to reinsert a horizon back into

the city.

Elevation Bscale: 1/2” = 1’



Behnisch Architekten boston/masummer 2012



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re_membering an investigation into

memory + awareness of site + selfthesis 2012

Re_membering is a reevaluation of the current

architectural aesthetic, one based in a purely visual

sense which keeps users from fully understand

their environment, site, architecture or themselves.

The explorations within Re_membering are a means

of understanding the self through understanding the site. Based on our preexisting memories

of space, site, material, immaterial and ourselves, our memories allow us to interpret and experience

spaces completely independently and dictate

our understanding and interpretations of new

spaces, environments and ourselves.



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During my internship at the Behnisch Architekten/Boston office, I worked on a team of two to produce

a large scale schematic and explorative model of a

project at Amherst College. The model pictured is a complete model of the entire project, modeled at 1/8 inch scale using

primarily plexy and white museum board. The model

was a complete section model, coming apart at

each of the four floors and roof, and was cut in section at three different

points. The model also consisted of a considerable amount of the surrounding

topography and existing buildings, in total spanning

roughly six feet at its widest.

I also worked on a 1/4 inch section/detail model of

the central atrium space, exploring more into the

actual relation of different materials and spaces.



freelance renderings poconos/pa

spring 2013



benjamin lebel_


During my internship at the Behnisch Architekten/Boston office, I worked on a team of two to produce

a large scale schematic and explorative model of a

project at Amherst College. The model pictured is a

detail model of the central atrium space, modeled at 1/4 inch scale using

primarily plexy and white museum board. The

model is section/detail model of the central atrium space, exploring more the actual relation of different

materials and spaces.



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freelance renderings poconos/pa

spring 2013

These renderings for an addition to an event facility

at Stroudsmoor Country Inn each took 15+ hours to hand draft the perspectives

and hand paint with water colors.

The views were chosen to depict the building as a

whole, once complete and an interior view of the new pavilion to show the space and capture the extended

views.



youth hostel berlin, germany

fall 2010



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forte residence poconos/pa

fall 2012

This home is stuck in the 1970’s, with its metallic

wallpaper and wood panelled walls and ceilings.

The home was recently acquired by the Forte’s

and is shortly going under a complete remodel, I am

currently working with Linda Forte to design the new

layout and interior spaces.We are completely

opening up the residence to take advantage of the

spectacular views over the mountain and valleys of

North East Pennsylvania. Currently split up into tiny, cramped, almost uninhabitable spaces, the main floor is being

completely opened up into a grand kitchen/living/dining

room, opening up onto the back deck and a completely

redesigned master suite, taking unpleasant spaces

and turning them into rich, intimate rooms.



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youth hostel berlin, germany

fall 2010

Looking at the urban context of historic Hobrech street pattern and the opposing

densities of green space and urban density, the site offers

the opportunity to create a connection between the

context and the users. The extensions form is directly related to the proportions

and thinking of the existing conceptual, ship form of

the hostel, but treated and expressed in an entirely new language creating two similar yet different buildings, each with its

own identity. The detailing and material selections

are all based on the idea of the existing building

and extension as ships. With a completely open

floor plan, all the spaces are created not solely by

walls, but by volumes, floor covering, and height

differences, accommodating easy access to the new

connections.



Taylor&Burns boston/masummer 2010



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friends schoolk-4 grade

spring 2012

The school is composed of three wings which bend around the contours of the site and enclose a private

campus center on the upper level of the site and at the

lower elevations and along the ponds edge, these wings open up to a public site and

serve dual functions within the school and on the site.

The classrooms themselves are all individual and unique

spaces interconnected by an interior/exterior

green roof that acts as an exterior extension of the classrooms for outdoor

learning and a communal space for academic and extracurricular activities.

The roof planes of the wings extend beyond their

boundaries and overlap the neighboring wings creating

joints for them to bend around the contours and

create entry points the pull occupants into the spaces and to pull the community

into the school.



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Taylor&Burns boston/masummer 2010

During my internship at Taylor&Burns Architects, I worked on re-branding

literature, formatting client presentations,

schematic design solutions, construction/detail

drawings and worked on several presentation and

explorative models.The model shown is a 1/8 inch model exploring two

options for an addition to a church in Massachusetts.



retreat housenew england meadow

spring 2010



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funerary site competitioin

1st placespring 2010

“There is no death, what seems so is transition.”

–Longfellow

Theoretical competition for chapel and funerary site

proposed by school. The proposal was derived from

the poetry of Longfellow with the main ideas of death as a threshold to a new life,

rather than an end to life, and life as an ever-changing entity. These ideas dictated

much of the project, from materiality to circulation and

the “tidal garden,” which is an ever-changing space

on the site, that changes with the tide of the harbor,

allowing for visitors to descend into a dry garden at

low tide, providing intimate and private spaces.



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retreat housenew england meadow

spring 2010

The Phenomena’s of meadow, an ever-changing

blank canvas, one with constant datum’s of earth

and grass flowing and giving visual form to an invisible

wind through its waves. The home is composed

of living spaces bending around the slope with

the flow of the wind and meadow grasses as they

overlap each other to create spaces within and around

the home. This bending and overlapping create both

interior and exterior space and a circulation path that

runs from the meadow through the house and back

out, dissipating into the meadow, while enclosing

and creating exterior living spaces.


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benjamin lebel_ chrissy cornish_ Visual Manager -West Elm Broadway 1870 Broadway NY/NY 10023 201.925.1239

matt noblett_ Principal - Behnisch Architekten 125 Kingston street Boston/ MA 02111 617.375.9380 [email protected]

mark pasnik_ Professor/Colleague - WentworthInstitute of Technology 555 Huntington Ave. Boston/MA 02115 617.335.8982 [email protected]

rob trumbour_ Professor/Colleague - Wentworth Institute of Technology 555 Huntington Ave. Boston/MA 02115 508.284.3425 [email protected]

bruck macnelly_ Professor/Colleague - Wentworth Institute of Technology 555 Huntington Ave. Boston/MA 02115 508.627.0911 [email protected]

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