Piper Bernbaum Portfolio Architecture and Design Selected Works - 2012

Piper Bernbaum Contact e: piperbernbaum@gmail.com w: piperbernbaum.com t: +1 403 2452279

Curriculum VitaePiper Bernbaume: piperbernbaum@gmail.comw: www.piperbernbaum.comt: (403) 245 2279

REFERENCESExcellent references available upon request

EDUCATIONUniversity of Waterloo, Bachelor of Architecture Honours Co-op Program 2008 to Present. Architectural Studies in Design Studio, Cultural History, Visual Communications, Building Science, Environmental Design, Architectural History. Top of class 1A, 1B and 2A

Western Canada High School - 2005 to 2008 Graduated I.B. Student, Bilingual Top of Class Ecole Bishop Pinkham Jr. High School Full French Immersion Program

AWARDS AND HONOURS University of Waterloo School of Architecture Design Award - Dec. 2011University of Waterloo Engineering Student of the Year - Aug. 2010 Selected Artist for “Come Up to My Room” Art Exhibition Toronto 2012University of Waterloo Dean’s Upper Year Award of Excellence April 2009 and April 2010University of Waterloo Academic Excellence Award - Top of Class April 2010 and April 2009Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Citizenship Medal - March 2009 Alberta Rutherford Scholarship for Academic Achievement - Sept. 2008 Canada Millennium Excellence Award - June 2008Western Canada High School Citizenship Award - June 2008Western Canada High School ‘Old Boys Club’ Inductee - June 2008Premier’s Citizenship Award of Alberta - May 2008Husky Energy Partnership Award - June 2008University of Waterloo Entrance Scholarship - May 2008Calgary Herald Class Act Award of Outstanding achievement - April 2008Alberta’s Rising Star Scholarship - Sept. 2007 Western Canada High School Student of the Year - June 2006/2007

PUBLICATIONSOnsite Magazine on Rural Urbanism, Canada - Official Selection to showcase studies on the Arctic North and a proposal for an infrastructural intervention, a contemporary utilidor (Arctic Spine project) - April 2012

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EMPLOYMENTSauerbruch Hutton - Berlin, Germany January 2012 to August 2012 - Architectural Design InternCompetition work, Schematic design to final presentation - all phases KPF, Kohn Pederson Fox Associates - New York City, New York May 2011 to August 2011 - Architectural Design Intern In charge of design and documentation of public spaces, material communication and development, design development, render and graphic work, competitions

Raw Design - Toronto, Ontario September 2010 to December 2010- Architectural Design Intern Design development and preliminary design work, construction documents (AutoCAD), rendering and graphic work, competition work, site documentation

University of Waterloo January 2011 to April 2011 - Teacher’s Assistant - Graphic Design Course

Folio/MCMP Architects and Designers - Vancouver, British Columbia January 2010 to May 2010 - Architectural Design InternComputer drafting and Modelling, Client Presentations, Physical Modelling

Bernbaum Architect Ltd. – Calgary, Alberta May 2005 to September 2009 Part time Assistant to Architect

ATTRIBUTES Excellent design and graphic abilities, creative and innovative, outgoing and en-thusiastic, strong sketching abilities, 2D and 3D, punctual and professional, superb organizational skills, excellent leadership and interpersonal skills with strong team work abilities, work well in high stress situations and deal with the task at hand, fluent in English and French, capable of multitasking, completing work on time

SKILLS DIGITAL: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, PowerCAD, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Vray, Maxwell Render, Google Sketch-Up, Form-Z, Form-Z Render Zone, Corel Painter, 3DS Max, Microsoft Office, Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista

TRADITIONAL: Hand Drafting, Model Making, Free Hand Sketching, Painting, Rendering, Visual and Oral Presentations, Excellent Math and Language Skill

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE Waterloo Architecture Students Association, Executive Board September 2008 to Present Vancouver ‘Rain-city Housing and Support Society” Volunteer - January 2010 Waterloo Peer-Mentoring Program – Coordinator - Sept. 2009 to PresentLouise Dean Partnership Program - Founder - Sept. 2006 to June 2008Western Canada High School Student Council - Vice President 2005-2008

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Design Projects

Internships

Art and Installations

Arctic-Spine

Raw Design

Sauerbruch Hutton

Nuit Blanche Installation

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Hotel MercatoPull Towers KPF + MCMP

Pollock Chair Urban StudiesSukka Pavilion

01Arctic SpineThe Arctic Spine is a proposal for a new province wide arctic-utilidor; a pathway that carries and provides accessibility to basic utilities for living and work. The project begins by establishing a network across the North West Territories - investing in the potential for a food harvesting and trade network. At a local scale, the processing infrastructure, the port, and community programs become hubs through the city, and the utilidor, acting as a spine, works with the already established urban plan and connects them. The Utilidor not only provides access to hot water, sewage lines, electricity and heat, but also has congregation points where these utilities can be used uniquely and easily to the benefit of the community. There are ‘pathways’, ‘surfaces’, ‘sheds’ and ‘shacks’ that all encourage citizens to ‘plug-in’ and use the utilidor for personal business or industry support. The Cooperative Utilidor pathway has a subtle presence and can be used year round.

The utilidor project was later recognized and published in Canada’s ‘Onsite’ magazine on relevant rural studies.

Completed With: Fraser PlaxtonDecember 2011

Adobe Suite, AutoCad, Rhino, Vray, Google Sketchup

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Existing Northern Utilidors and Pipelines 1

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2 Arctic Utility Corridor Pathway

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Arctic Food and Game Industry Map 1Inuvik Market Surface Space 2

Market Portable Shed Typology 3Greenhouse Surface and Infrastructure 4

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5 Utilidor Servicing Local Fish Farms

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Sauerbruch Hutton is a Berlin based international architecture office that works on a range of building, planning, art, cultural, community and city design projects. The practice focuses on the creation of functional, sensual and conscientious architecture with individuality and personality in both new and existing contexts that integrate technical innovation and a strong synthesis of colour.

This internship at Sauerbruch Hutton was spent working directly on international competitions varying in program and size, and all in distinct contexts. Work included all phases of competition work, including site documentation, schematic and massing design, 2D and 3D documentation, visualization through rendering and animation, facade and detail variations, as well as creating presentations and engaging in office meetings and charettes.

Architectural Internship January 2012 - August 2012Adobe Suite, AutoCad, Microstation 2D and 3D, Rhino,

Vray, 3D Studio Max, Competition Work, 1

Colour and Facade Studies 1

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2 Bocconi Campus Recreation Visualization

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Threshold Vignettes 4Floor Plate Detail 3

Access and Configuration Diagram 1Exploded Program Axonometric 2

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5 Campus Lecture Hall Section

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Building Configuration and Entrance Visualization 4Street Facade and Threshold Visualization 3

City and Historical Context Maps 2Massing and Presence Study 1

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6 Design Morphology5 Waterfront Presence Visualization

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Pull-TowersPull-Towers began a as single mass that has been cut into two unique pieces and pulled apart. As a goal to create a space for both office users and students from the near-by University of Toronto, the challenge was designing a campus, inherently designing a user-friendly space that is comfortable and accessible to everyone. With an emphasis on learning, office program connects in with the students education through the use of the horizontal bridges; sharing space and experience; creating a fun and friendly environment for students, workers and Torontonians alike. Interaction, education and partnership are visible. Pull-towers puts play on display.

Individual ProjectApril 2011

Adobe Suite, AutoCad, Rhino, Vray, Physical Models1

Toronto Avenue Street Elevation 1

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2 Physical Massing and Facade Model

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Mixed Program Designation 3Overlapping Programmatic Section Study 2

Design Visualization 1

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7 Brides and Boxes with Roof terraces6 Public Pedestrian Courtyard5 Outdoor Art Gallery4 Interior Open Office Space

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Kohn Pederson Fox is a New York based global office with a diverse portfolio of both public and private work. An internship at Kohn Pederson Fox provided a focus on urban centres and exposure to the work and specifications required to successfully build and engage in design of and within major cities. With exposure to a wide range of projects from architecture, interior, programming and master planning, work consisted of schematic design studies to construction documentation work, as well as being a part of revisions, reviews and environmental studies on projects underway in the office. The larger part of the internship focused on one project in the city of Vancouver, Canada, working directly with specific site conditions on the Ocean front, and the surrounding protected historic district of the city.

Kohn Pederson Fox

Architectural Internship May 2011 - September 2011Adobe Suite, AutoCad, Rhino, Vray, 3D Studio Max,

Competition Work, Construction Documentation1

Facade Form Studies 1

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Street Connection Visualization 1

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4 Interior Lobby Visualization5 Public Exterior Domain

3 Skyline Visualization2 Historical and New City Elevation

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“Hotel Mercato” consists of two markets, one ‘permanent’ and the other ‘permeable’. It emphasizes communal living, hosting a harvest table and common lounges on each floor of the building. There is an extensive vegetable garden and an herbal garden that relates to the restaurant, lounge and herbal-spa; essentially everything used on site is made on site. At Hotel Mercato, you are exposed to the culture that is Cambridge. Between visitor and city, every player is involved.

Independent WorkDecember 2009

Adobe Suite, AutoCAD, PowerCAD, Form-Z1

Design Precedent - Suprematism Art 1

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2 Public Market Hotel Design

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Public Walkway and Long Elevation 1

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3 Courtyard Informal Program Uses2 Site lines and City Connection

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An installation designed for Toronto’s all night art exhibition, Nuit Blanche, “Test Tubes” was a recycled project creating a new urban landscape within the fabric of the city centre. The project consisted of working with a series of cardboard tubes and plywood connections to create tree-like-canopies that can connect and create an instantly intimate place to transform unused or undesirable space in an urban centre. Fabric panels were added to the structures to allow and block site lines through the installation to the surrounding context; creating an outdoor living room. Using available recycled materials and unique but simple design connections, the project could be built and dismantled in less than a day; allowing for impromptu social interaction.

The project engaged itself with the public as a form of urban park where crowds would loiter and wander - an exterior-interior space. The project was installed on two separate occasions for public art events in Ontario, Canada, and was published in the Toronto Star newspaper after its first review at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche Exhibition in October 2011.

Completed With: Andrew Brown, Sarah Gunawan, Meaghan Murray, Matt Lawson, Tristan Van Leur

Physical Installation - Sept. - Dec. 20111

Connection Detail Photo 1

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2 Full Installation

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Test Builds and Project Components 2Site Plan 1

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3 All Night Public Installation

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Raw Design is a young Canadian architectural office focused on adaptive reuse of design and space. Engaging in the popular culture of high density housing design in Ontario, Raw Design considers the greater context of a project, focusing specifically on community impact and volunteering time and work to neighborhoods in need.

This internship consisted of both competition work and volunteer design proposals for communities and neighborhoods in the city of Toronto. Massing and schematic design work, as well as community and group meetings allowed for a personal connection to the project work, and a clear emphasis on site documentation and conscious design when working on 2D and 3D documentation. All phases of design were completed in addition to volunteering with the neighborhoods and sites under study and design.

Architectural Internship, Sept. - Dec. 2010Adobe Suite, AutoCad, Rhino, Vray, Google Sketchup,

3DS Max, Sketch Design work, Project Documentation1

Aerial Axonometric Diagram 1

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Sukka PavilionThe modern sukka is a pavilion based on the temporary shelters that were used for homes during the 40 years Hebrews spent travelling the desert. A creation demanding human interaction, it is open to nature, but allows one to feel the protection of a simple refuge.

Independent DesignDecember 2008

Rhino, Hand Modelling, Hand drafting1

In Situ Renders 1

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“I have no fear of making changes, reworking a piece or destroying the image, because the painting has a life of its own, I only live around it.” -Jackson Pollock

A chair designed for Jackson Pollock is a working chair. He moved vigorously around the edges of the canvas, it’s technique combined the movement of his body, over which he had control, the viscous flow of paint, the force of gravity, and the absorption of colour into the canvas. The design of chair for Pollock considered his body movements, desiring to be something that would facilitate his work and painting. The design transformed into a project that he could have fabricated at home; wood sections bound by bolts on a set of wheels to allow movement and lunging in any direction over his artwork. With its extension piece, Pollock could reach out onto the canvas without rising from his seat. Inspired by Pollock’s life and art, this chair is a manifesto of how he worked.

The Pollock Chair was selected to be displayed in Toronto’s Annual “Come Up to My Room” Art Exhibition in Jan. 2012

Completed With: Meaghan MurrayDecember 2011

Rhino, Wood and Shop Work1

Inspiration and Concept Sketch 1

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Gliding Position 3Open Painting Position 2

Variations of Configuration and Use 1

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Urban StudiesDrawing on location, inside or out, is a way to capture what we see through direct observation. Architecture and the state of a city changes dramatically through time, use and occupation, and upon my travels I have recorded these surroundings and places through the form of urban studies and sketches. The most beautiful thing about architecture is the current state of use and decay it is in - and sketching, like photography, is a means to capture this temporal quality.

Varying in scale, style and medium, these drawings are a record of time and place, and are truthful to the current state which we live and see.

Independent WorkSept. - Nov 2012

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Portico in Mantova, Italy 1

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Piper Bernbaum Contact e: piperbernbaum@gmail.com w: piperbernbaum.com t: +1 403 2452279