To Whomever It May Concern,

I am a graduate student at SciArc in Downtown Los An-geles and am looking to obtain an internship this fall for the months of September through December. I have an undergraduate degree in business and many years of expe-rience in this industry, but have always been compelled to study Architecture. This combination of interests gives me a unique understanding of what Architecture can and should be. I believe a design should be an interesting Architectur-al project and have a deep connection to its site and the people who interact with it, while simultaneously being as efficient and integrated as possible. Therefore, each design should be a unique integration of multiple systems (me-chanical, social, and architectural) which interact in a way to promote a project of unity and synthesis between these aspects of architecture. My experience in business com-bined with multiple semesters of group projects and ex-tensive software training at SciArc has made me extremely good at collaborating with people and learning quickly. I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to intern at your company and anticipate your response.

Sincerely,

Sara Loy

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Portfolio of Work

Dynamic Circulation

Resume

Design Development

M.ArchI Program at SciArc

Tokyo Studio

Professional Experience

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Confederacy of Heretics Exhibit March 2013 Installation team

• Built the Andrew Zago designed walls as well as helped retrieve and mount the architectural drawings and documents

Peter Cook Instal lat ion March 2012 Corridor team

• Designed and built the corridor walls as part of the Comfo-Veg Installation at SCI-Arc JP Morgan Chase Chicago, IL; Mission Viejo, CA Mar. 2009 – July 2011 Personal Banker

• Acquired new accounts and other client relationships for Chicago and Orange County branches.

• Exceeded sales goals and workplace expectations every month. • Assisted clients in resolving any issues or complications that arose. • Performed account maintenance for clients and monitored accounts when necessary.

Best Buy, Inc. Orange, CA Oct. 2004 – Dec. 2008 Mobile Manager

• Coached and trained employees, building improved department work ethic and efficiency. • Set goals and objectives for individuals and the department on a daily, weekly, and monthly

basis. • Successfully launched West Coast opening of Best Buy Mobile at the Orange County location • Achieved department and individual bonuses 6 out of the 9 months in position. • Improved department processes by creating innovative ways to market the Best Buy Mobile

brand throughout the store and community. • Resolved customer issues and insured each customer left fully satisfied and with a complete

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EDUCATION Southern Cali fornia Los Angeles, CA Jun. 2011 - Present Inst i tute of Architecture Making + Meaning M.Arch 1 Professional Degree Chapman University, Orange, CA December 2008 Bachelors Degree, Business Administration

o 3.5 GPA o Achieved Provost list multiple semesters

SKILLS

• Maya, Maxwell, Rhino, Grasshopper, Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, Vasari, AutoCad,

Microsoft Office Suite • Construction experience (walls, doors, painting, etc.) • Model Building including 3d printing and milling • Architectural Drawing/Research

REFERENCES

John Enright Undergraduate Program Chair Griffen Enright Architects john_enright@sciarc.edu John Bohn Japan Studio Coordinator JBohn Associates jnb@jbohn.com  

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design studio: japan summer abroad (collabo-ration with Zach Michielli and Ryan Hopkins)

This project is a proposal for a reconstruction of the current Tsukiji Fish Market located in the Chuo Ward of Tokyo, Japan. The current market is being moved to a new location and this proj-ect proposes to keep a smaller version of the fish market on site along with a 400 unit housing developement, hotel, and Olympic Complex for the water sports of the 2020 Olympic Games. Our project is interested in the dynamic circulatory systems that are the life beat of Tokyo and that make it run and exist differently than any other city. The relationship and interaction of these systems around the “absent center” of the Imperial Palace has a parallel within science. This parallel is what our master plan is based on, what is called the “3-body problem” and manifests itself as a seemingly chaotic system of circulation that exists around the inoccupiable center of the proposed subway station. Through an examination into the changing scales and the vary-ing ways these scales move and occupy the space, we created an interactive and interconnected master plan that intricately linked the varying program of the site. We then more specifically devel-oped the Tsukiji Market and the Olympic Venue, both of which continue this theme of dynamic movement and circulation.

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Top Left: Plan and Section of Fish MarketTop Right: Plan and Section of Olympic Complex

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design development drawing set

This was a devlopement process completed after a studio semes-ter through which we worked on and further developed a design project. This project was designed by Yu Li and Ryan Ekstrom, and the set was completed in collaboration with them as well as Julian Ma and Zachariah Michielli. All drawings were placed on a construction document template and numbered according to the standards of a construction document set. The drawings include all plan, sections, elevations, structural details, HVAC diagrams, ADA diagrams, egress diagrams, structural axos, 3d chunks, cost and delivery analysis, as well as the cover and index pages. I was responsible for and collaborated on the sections, elevations, HVAC diagrams, ADA diagrams, one of the 3d chunks, and cost analysis.

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DESIGN BY RYAN EKSTROM AND YU LI

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT DONE IN COLLOBORATION WITH:

RYAN EKSTROMYU LI

JULIAN MA`ZACHARIAH MICHIELLI

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3D Chunk, Roof, Floor, and Facade Systems

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design studio: eccentric types

Located in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles, this project interrogates the housing typology through a study and transformative process of the tower type. Two towers are situ-ated on the corner of 7th and Main. They accentuate the corner condition by alighning the mass with the datum of the existing block while also responding to the directionality of the adjacent street.

An open atrium divides the two towers at their “seam” while also dictating the inner circulation, public space and two points of en-try. The seam emphasizes the split between the two towers and visibly divides them in section. Contrastingly, the exterior skin causes the mass to occilate between reading as both one and two volumes simultaneously. The internal program and units are dictated by the inner void, with the larger, more open unit plans occupying the “eccentric” volume and the studio and one bedroom units occupying the “normative” mass. A scalar treat-ment of the perforations on the external skin similarly articulate the project’s overall investigation and allow the mass to read as a continuous surface; with density towards the center that exag-gerates the reading of the internal figure. The perforations are then scaled significantly in oerder to accomodate balconies and outdoor patios for the units.

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Night Render, Downtown Los Angeles

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East Elevation

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Longitudinal Section

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Latitudinal Section

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Ground Floor Plan

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Typical Plan

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Facade Studies

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design studio: pure primitives

The final design project for the second semester of studio was a single family home. More specifically, under the instruction of Volkan Alkangolou we focused on the incorporation of both the courtyard and the automobile into the house. We looked at the relationship they shared with the house itself and their influence on the space. My project projected the car as an object which interrupts and directly interacts with the house. In this way, the car created a split through the house, which formed two volumes joined by multiple walkways, which then dictated the basic circulation through the structure. The car then became the focal point and could be admired from every floor and room of the residence. This split was also carried out by the courtyard, in section rather then plan however. Thus creating a courtyard area that seperated the private bedrooms from the communal (public) rooms of the lower floors. Lastly, the facade was a reflec-tion of the distortion that existed in the preliminary grid, used to

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Street View Render, Chelsea, NYC

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Circulation and Facade Diagram

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Plans

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Physical Sectional Model Photos

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