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NORMAN LEE SMITH JR | LAIDBACK | ALWAYS IMPROVING | TEAM PLAYER | PERSISTANT | RESPONSIBLE | RESOURCEFUL | MOTIVATED | DEDICATED|

BASIC INFORMATIONPERMANENT ADDRESS: P.O. BOX 7242 NORFOLK, VA 23509HOME ADDRESS:7422 DIVEN ST NORFOLK, VA 23505WORK EMAIL: smith.norman94@gmail.comPERSONAL EMAILS:starwarssmith15@gmail.comleesmithjr19@yahoo.comPHONE NUMBER:(757) 990-9087

OTHER INFORMATIONWilling to RelocateAuthorized to work in the U.S.Viriginia Basic Driver’s LicenseCurrently an architecture student

EDUCATIONFairfax High SchoolFairfax, VAAdvanced Studies DiplomaGraduation Date: June 2012

Hampton UniversityHampton, VAM. Arch in progressGradaution date: May 2017

EXTRACURRICULARACTIVITIES

Hampton University AIAS/NOMAS Architecture Barbie & Young Men in Architecture2014 to presentGroup dedicated to providing information, education and resources on issues critical to architecture and striveto promote excellence in architectural education, training, and prac-tice; foster an appreciation of architectureand related disciplines, enrich communities in a spirit of collabora-tion; organize students and combine theirefforts to advance the art and science of architecture Speak against apathy, bigotry, intolerance, discrimination and ignorance; and protect the natural environment, un-empowered, marginalized and disenfranchised.Co-leader from August 2015 to May 2016

Hampton University’s AIASStudent ChapterSeptember 2013 to PresentPosition: Student Representative

Golden key International Honor SocietySeptember 2015 to Presentinducted on September 24, 2015

National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA)August 2014 to PresentGeneral Member

American Institute of Architects (AIA)August 2012 to PresentGeneral Member

CERTIFICATIONCentriport IC3 Digital Literacy Certification Global Standard 3May 2012 to PresentShows demonstration of basic computer hardware, software and internet knowledge and skills through successful completion of the examinations comprising IC3.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

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AWARDSNorfolk Environmental Action AwardNovember 2015This award honors students from Hampton University’s Department of Architecture and OldDominion University’s Department of Civil and Environmen-tal Engineering for their efforts towards respondingto rising sea levels and improving Norfolk’s overall environ-mental sustainability.

National AIAS Freedom by DesignCommunity Improvement Honor AwardDecember 2015Awarded By AIAS, this award honors the students from Hampton’s Department of Architecturefor making contributions to improving the community around the Hampton Roads Area. This was done throughour Architecture Barbie & Young Men in Architecture event.

BEMIS EXTENSION HAMPTON UNIVERSITY, VA SECOND YEAR

SITEThe main objective is to design an addi-tion to our Architecure department build-ing. It includes extra office spaces, gallery spaces for presentations, and a bigger auditorium to house more students for department meetings. The second objec-tive is to design a courtyard that acts as a tie for art,music, and architecture stu-dents to meet and converse on differenttopics.

RETAIL ALLIANCE KING ST HAMPTON, VA THIRD YEAR

SITEThe objective is to design a three-story building that provides extra retail shops onthe ground and office space on the second and third levels. This is done in hopes of revitalizing the commerce that happens on King St in Hampton.

WEST FREEMASON APARTMENTS YORK ST & DUNMORE ST NORFOLK,VA THIRD YEAR

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The objective is to design two apartment buildings for the city of Downtown Norfolk that oversees the water and the Light Rail Trains in the area. The shorter building has the inclusion of a first floor gallery space used for the storing and showing of works of art by new and unique artists. The taller building houses a first to second floor cafe as well as a rooftop restaurant that allows the people to eat outside and experience the view of the water from the northerndirection.

DECORUM NORTH RENOVATION 22ND ST & LEWELLYN AVE NORFOLK,VA THIRD YEAR

SITEThe objective is to renovate a warehouse into a mixed-used retail and residential building. The owner of the warehouse re-quests at least six shops, a restaurant, four apartments, a courtyard, and an owner’s apartment to be designed in a way where people are encouraged to visit as a regular spot in Norfolk.

CHRYSLER MUSEUM HOUSING CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART NORFOLK,VA THIRD YEAR

SITEThe objective is to replace the old hospital with luxury housing next to the Chrysler Museum of Art that will act as another source of income for the museum. It also provides the view of the Hague as well as the luxury of being within walking distance to visit the museum.

CLASS DESIGN PROPOSAL TOULON,FRANCE TRAVEL ABROAD STUDY PROGRAM

A proposal has been undertaken 40 area inside the Porte d’Italie on the eastern edge of the old city of Toulon. As an urban design initiative the overarching goal is To make a welcoming entrance to the old city from the east, To read we’ve a series of buildings at great variance of scales and using to a comprehensive and comprehensible fabric, To make this entrance become part of the historic such as pedestrian zone. The site is bounded on the east by ramparts remaining from the city’s oldest defences on the west by a series of typical Toulonnaise vernacular mixed use buildings which are tall and slender party wall buildings with fairly consistent patterns of fenestration, This on the south by an elevated complex of shopping mall, hotels and sports facil-ities opened in the 1990’s And undercut by high-speed tunnels comprising most of the south end of the site,and on the north By the wall and vernacular buildingsCurving west on either side of what is in essence a high-speed motorway leading to tun-nels under the shopping complex. There isAnna Ray and short of significantly different building types, scales and eras with the area between given over to speeding cars coming down the boulevard and careering in through tutone’s built through the ramparts.

TOULON CLASS DESIGN PROPOSAL TOULON,FRANCETRAVEL ABROAD STUDY PROGRAM TRAVEL ABROAD STUDY PROGRAM

Full energy was put into focusing on the newly imagined Place Partagee. we were advised that french planning circles a street or place designed to accommodate both automobiles and pedestrians, is called partager, the French word meaning to share. the design proposes a place mediating between the porte and the line of vernacular build-ings to the west, it also re-institutes the traditional open area just inside the principal gates of fortified towns to

provide space for visiting vendors and for the mustering of troops. Nestled between new proposed mixed use buildings to the north and south, the area between the two buildings is at grade at the north end and, as the land falls off to the south , is raised to the south . A fountain is on axis with the Porte, and a path of paving stones, in a contrasting color to the field stone proposed for the area, leads to it from the porte. A line of trees on its western area extends the proposed planting pattern of the remains of Boulevard St Bernard and provides a shaded area for part of the place. To the north of ilot Clemencet, a bus transfer station was designed. As buses would no longer be passing through the project site to the south, it was conceived as a shaded place for people to wait for public transportation and allow the buses to turn back to the larger roadways within and without the historic district, it is situated within the fast expanse of Avenue St Bernard. It is propsed that one of the lanes of vehicular traffic be converted to a bicycle only route, From the single vehicluar entrance would be greeted by a new builiding which would effectively reduce the speed of automobiles .

TOULON CLASS DESIGN PROPOSAL TRAVEL ABROAD STUDY PROGRAM TRAVEL ABROAD STUDY PROGRAM

The Building proposed is a mixed use building. On the uppers floors are a mix of subsidised and market rate housing units. On the ground floor are commerical units and, along its eastern edge a colonnade for pedestrian use. At the midpoint along the east elevation the design team passed back a gift of the French people to Viriginia: Thomas Jefferson’s hemispherical domed aedicula at the entrance to Pavilion IX at the University of Virginia was itself modeled on Cluade Niicholas Ledoux’s design for the Hotel de Gui-mad in Paris. For Les Cassernes, the inside face of the Vauban Wall is punctuated by entrances to a series of vaults on either side of larger portals. Currently in use a cabaret a meeting room in which the design team worked a cafe, and stair leading to the top of the ramparts, As time and construction have led to a gradual rise in grade, the entrances area below sidewalk level, accessed by stairs to stone parvis. Particular to the south of the porte, the area seems a bit of cul-de-sac, squeezed as it is by a vehicular ramp leading to the elevated places of the Centre Mayol. We hoped to encourage more lively use of the area, although un-derstanding thier “client”’s admontion that it would probably prove advisable to allow the parvis to be gated after business hours, Toward this end they Re-conceive the ramp access to the top of the ramparts.

ADAPTATION TO SEA LEVEL RISE THE HAGUE NORFOLK,VA FOURTH YEAR

WALLThe objective is to design a wall around the shoreline of the Ghent Neighborhood in Norfolk that would respond to the rising sea level thats occurs at the body of water called “The Hague”. The wall is a combina-tion of mainly water actuated walls in 150 ft increments that rise around three to five feet until it meets with the fixed wall pieces which are in 10 ft increments. This project was done by a group of Hampton Universi-ty Department of Architecture Students in conjunction with Old Dominion University Department of Civil Engineering Students. Due to the efforts of both groups, we were awarded the 2015 Norfolk Environmental Action Award by the Norfolk Environmental Commission.

KINDERGARTEN-8th GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 9501 MASON CREEK RD NORFOLK,VA FOURTH YEAR

SITET h e o b j e c t i v e i s t o d e s i g n a s c h o o l f o r g r a d e s k i n d e r g a r t e n t o 8 t h g r a d e t h a t r e s p o n d s t o t h e m e a n i n g o f h u m a n i s i t i c a p p r o a c h t o p e d a g o g y . A t 5 0 , 0 0 0 s q f t f o r 2 7 0 s t u d e n t s , i n t e r i o r a n d e x t e -r i o r s p a c e s w e r e d e s i g n e d t o e n -h a n c e t h e p r o c e s s o f l e a r n i n g i n a d d i t i o n t o i n c r e a s i n g t h e c o m -f o r t a b i l i t y a n d i n t e r a c t i o n b e -t w e e n s t u d e n t s a n d t e a c h e r s o f d i f f e r e n t g r a d e s . N a t u r a l l i g h t i s i n c o r p o r a t e d t o t h e g i v e t h e s t u -d e n t s t h e f e e l o f n a t u r e t o a l l o w c o n n e c t i v i t y w i t h t e c h n o l o g y t o p r o v i d e a n e n v i r o n m e n t t h a t i s f u n , s a f e , a n d p r o a c t i v e .

COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN - PROSCENIUM THEATER 1811 E MAIN ST & 18TH ST RICHMOND VA FOURTH YEAR

SITET h e o b j e c t i v e i s t o d e s i g n a t h e a t e r w i t h a 2 1 s t c e n t u r y c o n t e m p o r a r y f e e l i n t h e h i s t o r i c c o n t e x to f t h e S h o c k o e B o t t o m A r e a i n R i c h m o n d . I n t e n d e d t o h o u s e 6 5 0 o c c u p a n t s , e m p h a s i s w a s p l a c e o n t h e c o r n e r o f 1 8 t h s t a n d M a i n s t w i t h t h e u s e o f l i g h t i n g a n d g l a z -i n g i n o r d e r t o d r a w p e o p l e i n t h e l o b b y . T h e a u d i t o r i u m i s s l o p e d w i t h a b a l c o n y o n t h e s e c o n d f l o o r a n d i s i n t e n d e d t o m i m i c t h e e x t e -r i o r o f t h e t h e a t e r u s i n g t h e c o l -o r e d n a t u r a l s t o n e m a t e r i a l s . T h i s a l s o f e a t u r e s a b a r w i t h a m a h o g -a n y w o o d t r e l l i s t o b l o c k o u t l i g h t t o c r e a t e a d a r k e r a n d m o r e i n t i -m a t e s p a c e f o r t h e m o r e m a t u r e a u d i e n c e .

COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN - PROSCENIUM THEATER 1811 E MAIN ST & 18TH ST RICHMOND VA FOURTH YEAR