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PROJECTS 01 | MT. SANITAS YOUTH CENTER 2

02 | EL LOUNGE 7

03 | MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM 10

04 | BOULDER MOBILE MANOR 14

ADDITIONAL PROJECTS DRAWINGS 18

RENDERING 21

RESUME 22

WRITING EXAMPLE BACK COVER

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Washington University in St. LouisMaster of Architecture & Master of Social Work Candidate 2015Social Work Concentration: Social and Economic Development GPA: 3.98 University of Colorado | Graduated in May 2008 Bachelors of Environmental Design — emphasis on Architecture

Regional Housing and Community Development Alliance | Project Management AssistantExpected Start Date: January 2012

ReBUILD Foundation | VolunteerAugust 2011 — Present

WORKSHOP8 (formerly VaST Architecture) | Intern Architect June 2010 — August 2011

Dovetail Homes | Project AssistantMarch 2010 - June 2010 Museum of Contemporary Arts- Denver | Volunteer Gallery AttendantDecember 2009 – September 2011

VaST Architecture | Intern Architect June 2008 - March 2010 Architecture for Humanity, Denver Chapter | VolunteerDecember 2008 - Present

Boulder Housing Partners | Volunteer August 2007 - May 2008

College of Architecture and Planning (University of Colorado) | Teaching Assistant (Introduction to Social Factors in Architecture) January 2006 - May 2006 — Boulder, CO

EDUCATION

WORK & SERVICEEXPERIENCE

Mixed-Income Housing and Community Management: Practice FundamentalsSummer Semester 2012 — Washington University in St. Louis

Community Development and American CitiesSpring Semester 2012 — Washington University in St. Louis

Introduction to Research MethodsFall Semester 2011 — Washington University in St. Louis

CityStudioSTL: Somethingness; Ways of Seeing and BuildingSummer Semester 2011 — Washington University in St. Louis

Housing Policies and PracticesSpring Semester 2008 — University of Colorado

Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts (Washington University) | Scholarship RecipientAugust 2012

Elna A. Larson Education Fund (Boulder Business and Professional Women) | Scholarship RecipientAugust 2011

Brown School of Social Work Scholarship (Washington University in St. Louis) | Scholarship RecipientAugust 2011

President’s Leadership Class (PLC) (University of Colorado) | ScholarAugust 2004 - May 2006 — Boulder, CO

National Organization of Minority Architect Students | MemberJanuary 2012-Present Community Arts Initiative | Co-ChairSeptember 2011 - Present — Washington University in St. Louis

Graduate Professional Council | MemberSeptember 2011 - Present — Washington University in St. Louis

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

ACHIEVEMENTS, HONORS, & LEADERSHIP

STUDENT & PROFESSIONAL

ORGANIZATIONS

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Study Model

PlanScale: 1/4”=1’0”

Initial Concepts

This is a design charrette based on the Sukkah City STL 2011 competition. The structure allows for three main moments to happen during the Sukkot holiday -- convene, shelter, and pray. Depending on the time of the day, the structure holds intense shadows which is reflected in the interior sitting area. The seven beams that diagonally cross the roof represent the seven days long holiday.

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WRITING SAMPLE

CityStudioSTL is the culmination of a group of people with different backgrounds, interests, and histories who want to re-develop a sense of community in an under-resourced and overlooked St. Louis neighborhood. The CityStudioSTL summer course, sponsored and administered by Washington University and the Pulitzer Foundation, challenged graduate students to imagine how community based initiatives could be pursued through the collaboration of art, architecture, social work and other fields. The students of CityStudio STL under the leadership of the Rebuild Foundation pressed through three weeks of intense physical and mental labor in an effort to re-purpose an abandoned residential building and socially en-gage the Hyde Park community. The residential building will be converted into an “arthouse” for community members and the Most Holy Trinity church’s youth arts program, Urban Expressions.

The class was poetically sub-titled “Somethingness: Ways of Seeing and Building.” In St. Louis it is hard to ignore the pock-ets of desolate areas filled with abandoned and deteriorating buildings. There is a perceived sense of “nothingness” in these areas not only to visitors of the city but St. Louis residents as well. This perceived sense has relieved those in power in St. Louis to accept any real responsibility to reshape, revitalize and rebuild these areas. During our three weeks in Hyde Park we have witnessed powerful moments of happiness and hardship that are evidence of life and beauty in this com-munity. I now realize that three weeks was an unrealistic time frame for a group of students to solidify any major positive impacts on the neighborhood. The real objective of the class was to make people of the Hyde Park neighborhood, St. Louis and national community remember that there is something in Hyde Park and it can not be forgotten.

What did the program mean for me? There is an undeniable power in the built environment and I have been drawn to this power for as long as I could remember. The way one perceives his or her environment influences who they are and the person they want to become. This is the reason I chose architecture as a career path. As I continue to follow my dream of becoming an architect, I will diverge from the typical path and will begin pursing a Masters in Social Work at Washington University this upcoming fall. My hope is to build an architecture practice that will focus on using the built environment as a vessel of impactful social change. CityStudioSTL has allowed me to develop my career goals even further by exploring the relation between spatial, cultural and societal contexts to create more sustainable and healthy communities.

Excerpt from ReBuild Foundation Blog

Alicia Ajayi, 2011