4+ years of experience in John H. Daniels Faculty, specialized in design and digital/physical fabrication across architecture-related projects, which resulted in a $1250.00 scholarship from OAA.
Achieved #4 placement as a team member in the internationally recognized Arch Hive Utopia 2023 case competition.
Introduced new digital fabrication concepts in Grasshopper, such as attractor points, to 5th-year students in 1 hour as a student instructor for office hours, effectively troubleshooting the problems they frustratingly face.
Participated in the Faculty Orientation and Mentorship program for over four years, mentoring 10+ new students for easier transition.
Generated ideas and refined 5 first/second year students’ work as a student instructor during an office hour about grasshopper problems for an assignment to use digital fabrication to mimic organic clay sculptures, including using a catenary component to create an arch shape or attractor points to follow the irregular surfaces of the clay, increasing efficiency during script creation while minimizing errors.
Advised second-year student to enlarge programming art and adjust roof design in Grasshopper file for a programming assignment on a Zoom call with other instructors, resolving the “How?” of mapping the art onto the surface.
Student IT Office Help Desk |Yuri Lomakin - Toronto, ON|09/2023 - 03/2024
Streamlined operations and minimized bottlenecks by replenishing printers and plotters' paper and ink cartridges, meeting the high printing demand of first- and second-year students, particularly during busy morning hours.
Communicated with supervisor continuously and absorbed new skills quickly to adapt to printer operations and paper/ink storage, resulting in streamlined maintenance and improved printer/plotter efficiency.
Coordinated with other students and senior technicians to assist in fabricating elevator products, including soldering lead and screwing the wires to make buttons, speaker/microphone systems, and other electrical components, optimizing workflow efficiency by allocating more critical aspects of manufacturing to the senior technicians.
Demonstrated rapid mastery of physical fabrication, including product testing (e.g., speaker and microphone testing), executing high-quality and efficient tasks. This innovative approach started a streak of hiring student intern technicians, significantly boosting production efficiency.
Co-curricular Experience
Case competition team member|Future Living Lab - Arch Hive Utopia 2023|06/2023 - 08/2023
Conducted extensive research on various AI software to create images depicting a utopian building design from an existing urban space for the competition, leading the team to adapt to generative AI processes quickly.
Experimented with AI software, including ChatGPT and Midjourney, to generate innovative designs and create numerous images, where the chosen images ranked 4th place and received a prize of around $70 for the group.
Case competition team member|Future Living Lab - YAC Art Museum 2023 |09/2023 - 11/2023
Developed the base concepts for the art museum design in Weihai, Shandong, such as creating a zigzag pathway for the entrance and designing a looped circulation, which became critical in design.
Rendered two images of the museum design using Rhino Vray: an axonometric view and a street-level view, both used in the final submission.
Community Outreach
Student Mentor|University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty|10/2022 - 04/2025
Advised mentee with software help such as Rhino 3D to construct 3D models, including CurveBoolean command for outlining drawings, which ended up cutting down approximately 12 hours from software difficulties.
Mentored a first-year student on a pavilion roof design programming project, guiding component selection by introducing the “shift list” component to fix data list management issues. This was graded as 95%.
Orientation Leader|University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty|09/2021 & 09/2022 & 09/2023
Managed incoming first-year student group by introducing general university tips and connecting to available resources, easing the transition to a new environment.
Immediately reported to the coordinator a student who had forgotten his wallet at a nightclub and continuously followed up until the wallet was found at 1 a.m. downtown.
Education and Training
Honours Bachelor of Arts: Architectural Studies
University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty | 09/2020 - 06/2025
Technology Studio III - Constructed a 1:10 scale model with a partner for the final pavilion design designated to provide a resting area in the Royal Botanical Garden, Hamilton. Received OAA's Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Sustainability Scholarship Award of $1250.00.
Technology Studio IV - Designed an interactive app using augmented reality as a group of three, where the guest critiqued that studies AR requested a copy for their further research and study.
Advanced Topics in the Technology of Architecture - Made two presentations as a group of three that analyzed Masseria Rota, a vernacular building built in the 17th century in Naples, Italy, and CCTV headquarters, a modern building in Beijing, China, by after extensive research, creating multiple analytical and critical points with diagrams regarding the buildings’ ventilation and climate, intended program, history, etc. which awarded the highest marks amongst all the groups. (81%)
Technologies of Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Art II - Wrote a 1000-word essay about inspecting and analyzing Austrian Pavilion, in Dubai Expo 2020 and its usage of loam as a building material, and a 3000-word research paper, about a new thesis criticizing Hyperloop’s potential to create a new perception of distance, space and time beyond the level of bullet trains, which got a very positive response, gaining grades of 90% and 86%, respectively.