Shigeru Ban Architects, New York, Architectural Designer
Wangjiang New City - K11 Art Mall, Hangzhou, China
40,000 sq ft Hotel-Retail acts as a a benchmark for innovative urban life and an exemplar project for sustainable development alongside a network of office buildings for the next-generation workforce
Responsibilities included:
- 3-D mass modeling
- Visualizations for client presentations
- Presentation documentation and design development drawings
- Mapping and diagramming for place making
- CAD work Plans and Elevations for publication
- Cad work and preparation of plans and elevations for client presentations.
- Overall project help as required by the team.
Kentucky Owl Park, Kentucky, USA
420 acre masterplan dedicated to the production of whiskey along the Kentucky bourbon trail. The complex includes a vintage train station, a convention center and everything else needed for bourbon production – a distillery, rickhouses for ageing, and bottling facilities.
Responsibilities included:
- Participation in areas of the Concept Design and Schematic Design
- 3-D Modeling of Concept Design stage iterations
- Visualizations for client presentation
- Overall project help as required by the team with an emphasis leading visuals for client presentation
- Diagrams and visualizations for concept development
- Modeling and developing diagrams for client presentations
Wood Brochure, Online Publication
Leading effort for an online digital and physical manifesto on Shigueru Ban's innovative and creative uses of mass timber construction
Responsibilities included:
- Developing online platform for brochure to be accessed and distributed to clients
- Led the overall graphic development of the brochure through various digital methods
- Collaborating with leading online platform developers and consultants
- Overall project help as required by the team
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), New York, Architectural Designer
Urban Lantern, Dongguan, China
50,000 sq meter Residential and Office Mixed-Used, 120 meter tall headquarters tower, with retail, apartments and cultural programs.
Responsibilities included:
- 3-D mass modeling
- Presentation documentation for competition
- Mapping and diagramming for place making
- CAD work Plans and Elevations for publication
- Cad work and preparation of plans and elevations for client presentations.
- Overall project help as required by the team.
TCC HQ, Hangzhou, China.
117,000 sq meter tall tower is a metaphor for the Taiwan Cement Corporation, one of Asia’s most progressive environmental engineering companies. Housing hospitality, office and retail
Responsibilities included:
- Participation in areas of the Concept Design, Schematic Design, Design Development and Tender Stages
- 3-D Modeling of Concept Design stage iterations
- Construction documentation of interior design development
- Overall project help as required by the team with an emphasis on assisting tender documentation for construction
- Diagrams and visualizations for concept development
- Modeling and developing diagrams for client presentations
O-Office Architects, Guangzhou, CN, International Intern
Tiahe Youth Commune, Guangzhou, China
12,000 sq meter Residential and Office Mixed-Used, 5-story existing army warehouse complex refurbished for
a design district in Tianhe, Guangzhou , with 200 dwelling units, and office spaces linked with sky bridges and public parks
Responsibilities included:
- 3-D mass modeling
- CAD work Plans and Elevations for publication
- Cad work and preparation of plans and elevations for client presentations.
- Overall project help as required by the team.
Honglin High School Masterplan, Shenzhen, China.
110,000 sq meter scale Masterplan for redevelopment of Honglin High School. The combined senior and junior high school
contains over 100 classes with over 3000 degrees which include a sports complex, new construction of
a mixed used stadium, redesign of the existing classrooms, and redevelopment of the threshold
of the school.
Responsibilities included:
- Participation in areas of the Concept Design and documents for client presentation
- 3-D Modeling of Concept Design stage iterations
- Diagrams and visualizations for concept development
- An emphasis on modeling and developing diagrams for client presentations
Xiongan New Area- A new satellite city south of Beijing in development.
Confidential Project.
Responsibilities included:
- Site Analysis and urban flux research
- 3-D Modeling of Concept Design stage iterations
- Cad work for diagrams and documents
- An emphasis on modeling and developing diagrams for client presentations
Xiongan New Area- Kindergarten
Confidential Project.
Responsibilities included:
- 3-D Modeling of Concept Design stage iterations
- Cad work for diagrams and documents
- Concept stage Plan and Section diagrams for concept development
- An emphasis on modeling and developing diagrams for client presentations
Shanwei Wedding Hall, Shanwei, China
200 sq meter Wedding Chapel concept for the Kinshicho Bay Area in Shanwei. The 45.5 hectare construction area in development
will include a chapel to draw both residents and visitors to celebrate the new city and embrace the ocean bay through the
temple.
Responsibilities included:
- 3-D Modeling of Concept Design stage iterations
- Cad work for diagrams, plans and sections.
- Visualizations of chapel
- An emphasis on modeling and developing diagrams for client presentations
Handel Architects, New York, NY, US, Intern Architect
Riverwalk-8 | Roosevelt Island, NY | 2016
250,000 SF residential, 25-story residential tower in Roosevelt Island Riverwalk complex for
The Related Companies and Hudson Companies , with 300 dwelling units, and an 8,000 Sf
amenity area and exterior park.
3-D mass modeling. Modeling of exterior building massing schemes for the current Concept Design Phase.
Cad work and preparation of plans and site plans for client’s presentation.
Coordination of zoning and gross floor area charts.
Overall project help as required by the team.
Greenpoint Buildings G1. | Brooklyn, NY | 2016
108,000 Sf, 103 dwelling-unit- affordable building (F2), and a 30-story, 280,000 SF, 365 dwelling unit
market-rate residential tower as part of a 17.5 acre waterfront development.
Participation in areas of the Design Development and construction documents phases with emphasis on RCP designs as well as bathroom and kitchen design and documentation.
East 75nd Street Private Residence | NY, NY | 2016
Confidential Project.
3-D Modeling of Interior Spaces including and preliminary renderings.
Cad work for interior design.
University College London (UCL), London, GB, MArch, MArch RIBA Part II
Architecture |
Y5: Sewoon Archipelago// The once kilometer long shopping arcade, Sewoon Sangga in Seoul, South Korea, is reestablished as a kilometer long pig farm to revive the industrial heart of Seoul.
Design and Thesis // Distinction
Y4: Occupy Vitkov—The Czech National Brewery// A proposed conversion and repossession of The National Monument at Vitkov—once occupied by Nazi and Soviet regimes—into The Czech National Brewery in pursuit of the monument’s democratization.
Design Realization // Distinction
Building Software |
Survey of London BScan (3D Laser Scanning)
RhinoVault (Block Research Group - ETH Zürich)
Publications |
Landscape Festival Prague // Project selected for solo exhibition in Prague (June 30 - September 30)
Research Images as Art Prize Winner // Finalist for research image "Archipelago"
The Bartlett Summer Show 2018 // Unit 14- Pioneering Sentiment
Bartlett 3d Scan Library // Church Scans
University College London (UCL), London, MArch, Urban Design
High Distinction
Activities and Societies: Research Cluster Student Treasurer | Alumni Presentation
Architecture and Urban Design |
B-Pro 2017 (Bartlett Prospective Show)
Back-up City, RC12 (Design Studio)
Networked Urbanism in the Space-Surveillance Paradigm (Thesis Studio)
Building Software |
Environmental Design Simulations (Grasshopper)
Interactive Virtual Environments (Unity3D)
Landscape and Urban Research |
The Incomplete City Studio (Democratic, Networked City Design)
Spectacle of Consumption, Los Angeles (Iterations of LA's Urban Consumerist Influences)
Facsimile Seminar (Prof. David Roberts)
Bunhill Landscape (Recasting of London's former burial ground)
Publications |
Bartlett 2017 (Annual Publication, PostGraduate Studies)
FlashBack City (Drawing Workshop as collaborative human CAD machine)
KillScreen (Online Magazine)
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, US, BArch, Archietcture
Magna Cum Laude: Architecture with High Distinction
Activities and Societies: American Institute of Architecture Students President | National Organization of Minority Architects Professional Development | University Undergraduate Dean’s List | Adjudication Committee for Academic Integrity Appeal at the University at Buffalo | Hyatt Award: Given to top 5 designers (Class of 125)
Circadian Storage | Living and Working | 2012
Deconstruction of existing grain silos in Buffalo's Silo City
With Walls | Art Gallery | 2013
An existing housing building on site is used to reveal light and space to various works of art
Overlapping | Culinary Institute | 2014
A series of planes are intersected and overlayed using Palladian proportions
Vertical Forum | Wellness Center | 2014
Different kinks and turns create views across the city, connecting two distinct cultural groups within the urban fabric
Two Bars | Architecture Office | 2015
Two solid layers are broken by a large public lecture hall; allowing a relationship with Buffalo and its culture
Light, Illumination +Construction | Art Gallery | 2015
A twisting gallery bridges across Dublin's River Liffey, giving inhabitants a new light on Irish art
Micro Care | Healthcare Institute | 2015
This facility provides a therapeutic space for those under recovery from various treatments
Activities and Awards, Other
Finalist Sewoon Archipelago in 45th Annual Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition November 2019
Awarded for Best Student Digital/Mixed Drawing Submission
Project Sewoon Archipelago featured in The Global Studio Symposium at the September 2019- October 2019
Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism
Theme Emerging Forms of Collective City
Project Occupy Vitkov — The Czech National Brewery selected for solo exhibition June 2018- September 2018
in Prague, Czech Republic.
Prague Landscape Festival (Annual Design and Architecture Festival)
UCL Doctoral School Research Images as Art Competition
Finalist for Image “Archipelago” (Top 6 of 400 Contestants)Research Cluster
Student Treasurer September 2016- September 2017
•Coordinating and managing the studio accounts
for the Bartlett BPRO exhibition
Alumni Presentation September 2017
•A lecture given to incoming students on various
projects at the Bartlett given by 6 selected alumni (Class of 100)
Thesis Activism by Design (issuu.com/danavilan/docs/activism_by_design_daniel_avilan) September 2017
•Distinction (Top 3 Marks: Class of 100)
American Institute of Architecture Students January 2013- December 2015 •Positions held- President, Events Coordinator, and
Vice President
•Architectural book sale
•Hosting design charrette and organizing Beaux Arts Ball
•Professional development and community service
•Workshops, lectures, National Conferences
•Steer Facade Design Competition 2014-15
•Revit trainings
National Organization of Minority Architects December 2012- December 2013
•Positions held- Professional Development
•AIA Dallas YAF Playhouse Competition
•Market Competition (M.Art2013: OpenGap.net)
Phyllis Euker European Architecture Traveling Scholarship for the Study Abroad Program
University Undergraduate Dean’s List
Adjudication Committee for Academic Integrity Appeal at the University at Buffalo
Atelier organizer (University at Buffalo)
Hyatt Award: Given to top 5 designers (Class of 125)
Skills USA Architecture Competition 2012, Syracuse, NY
