RESUME,y N OYMENT SKILLS DNORS POPKO 412 708 3637 257 PAULETTE DR JARON POPKO@GMAIL.COM ELIZABETH, PA 15037 MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, CINCINNATI, OHIO 20112014 -3.BGPA Graduate Research Assistant BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE LINIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, CINCINNATI, OHIO 2007-2014, DANISH INSTITUTE FOR STUDY ABROAD COPENHAGEN, DENMARK 2010 Two month program SMITH-MILLER + HAWKINSON ARCHITECTS. NEW YORK, NEW YORK ‘Architectural intern ‘May 2013 ~ Aug 2013 (4 months) Project types Responsible: residential, cwic buildings, Documented and produced exsting condition drawings, designed museums, colleges & several options with full rendecings for NYC penthouse apartment, Universes, ransportation guilt lage scale study models and small-scale presentation models BLVD inc. SHENZHEN, CHINA, Aectectural Intern June 2012 -Dee 2012 7 months) Project yes esponsiolitis city planning. cve involied from conception to design development sage. In charge of buildings, high-rise offco creating design proposal documents, inducing research and concept andapartment towers diagrams, technical DD dranings, and perspective renderings RAFAEL DE CARDENAS // ARCHITECTURE AT LARGE NEW YORK, NEW YORK Design intern ‘Aug2011 = Dec 2011 (S months) Project types Responsibilities commercial nterors retail, Oesign proposals, design develoement, and construction documents Fesdental, restaurants, Garredvaluablemanaging sills through personal mestingswith dlents furntute, exhbitions and contractors, spedang with manufacturess, as well as overseeing purchase, delivery, andinsllaton of various components of projects DEMETRIADES + WALKER SAl/SBURY, CONNECTICUT Aectectual inten Sent 2010 -Dec 2010 (4 months) Project ypes Responstolives resdental involied in the construction document phase of several residential projects, Ganed valuable experience with redining dravings in fddtion to producing many highly devaled presentation models. AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Sketchup, Rhino, V-Ray, Microsoft Office, physical modeling, 30 printing, lasereutting Citation for Distinguished Design & Design Research (Master's Thesis) Included in upcorning publication, Shape of Sound, by Victoria Meyers Graduate Scholarship Cincinnatus Century Scholarshia www issuu.comy/jaronpopkoCONTENTS‘ADIGITAL MUSEUM. CRANBROOK SPA ‘THE INSTRUMENT & THE ATLAS SSMITH-MILLER + HAWKINSON BLYD ine GRAPHIC DESIGN MIKED MEDIA MODEL MAKING HAND DRAWINGA DIGITAL MUSEUM AN EXPLORATION IN THE PROJECTION OF/THROUGH SPACE.by @ labyrinth of erculetion, t nd moving wall int 1 ts intl lds satancing of the 3 repeated planar surfaces navigated path and dur sessile ephemeral nature of artitzalé The building which tall and wth be transparent, al sped he cladding oftaneo |FTE a = = a ee ee (eax) a SS am Programmatally, the mussum employs publcgalleries an interweaving of spatal organization, By ofceting the Mors, every user ic able 10 experience the spaces of the ‘other’ programs (exhibition, classrooms, artist studior, et). It is = dynamic flow of User types within the same system, Iabeand dasrooms AN but stil separate from one another The museum-goer is constantly being \\ fammon spaces projected through space and allowod specited views into the educational ‘work spaces and visa versa Prat ofcos A tlh Ae WN N\ \\ \ \CRANBROOK SPA A CONTEMPLATION OF NATURE DI COMPR Insplace 2 dract differences between the ceazons. This variance was my instal inspiration for the design oF 3 wellness spa. I stuated my building on the line of a dense forest facing the original monumental entry to the Academy. This ste slowed for a public fant elevation but a very private and secluded rear elevation Dus to the harsh westhar condinons and the architectural history ofthe school, my concept was to create. structure that put westher and tre an daplay and manitarsite own changes ‘over tie This s done by a central void, open tothe slements, that has » glass ster through that surrounds the user with the slements. In addition to the erculation, the entire building ‘envelope also acte as. canvas to sihibt weathering by use of| copper comices,faciitanng the staining ofthe stone facade ‘The front elevation facing the earnpus has no visible windows He focus is to oxhbit the beauty of nature and its erosive properties The back of the building opene up completely 10 the secluded forest, where ana is ow immarsedin the natura is 8 progression from vewing nature as corvosive farce 10 stevia earn inctUTHE INSTRUMENT & THE ATLAS METALEPSIS AS A LENS FOR READING THE CITYArchitectures an art of faming and mediating the og land perception of the world through the activation of later morphologies. Managing the relationship between the visible and the invisble, architecture performs a level of narrative ‘operations, which share @ border with literary theory, Both archtecture ond literature structure experience through means of spatial and temporal exrressions, allowing for cross-discpinary influence. This thesis seeks to uncover the analogical relationships that occur through imter-medal ‘translation by exploring how the creatwe processes of reading re-reading, and thus revit, which allow for an imaginative andcognitive pluralism, translate ntoa meaningful andereative architectural experience A Theliterary realm ofthe fantastic employs narrative strategies hat blur the boundaries of the visible and invisible, of reality land fiction, The writings of loge Luis Borges est within this complex and dissonant landscape punctuated by constantly constructingandeollpsingrealities Hsstoriesleavethereader witha feeling of the bizare uncanny, but more mportantly sense of profound discovery. Looking at Borgesian narrative ‘echniques, this thesis proposes an intervention within the ‘ty that provides he user with asmilarcsjunctive reading of reality, acting 2: y. The project 3 place for inquiry and understanding, an instrument for locking, | postion for erientaton, anda sit for unearthing hidden and) unstructured worlds Unstable atlas of the BbThe Atlas is a machine for the collection and fecitation ofknowledge about the world we live in. ft seeks to uncover and analyze natural and complex phenomena. Investigating architecture's role in shaping and enhancing perceptual experience, the Program provides tools that allow the User to locate, codify. and interpret his/her findings and to visualize the complex celationshipe between them and provide new interpretatve views, It 15 0 place for inquiry and understanding, an instrument for looking, a position for orientation, and a site for unearthing hidden and unstructured worlds.PROFESSIONALSMITH-MILLER + HAWKINSON ARCHITECTS NEW YORK, NEW YORKBLVD inc. SHENZHEN, CHINA LUZHOU WATERFRONT REDEVELOPMENT ‘The city of Luthow hired BLVD 10 completely re-think all of the cites waterfront property | was involved from inital conception and was heavily snvalved i the averl ‘xgenizational ideas nodal concepts | crested many of the maps, diagrams, waterfront eaction| renderings, ctreat_ eections, mactarplane of the various nedes, and design guidelines 1 was also repsonsible for the organization and layeut of much of the finicied dasien proposal documentLANGZHONG CITY EXPANSION ‘The expansion of the city of Langehong ie was abla to work on st BLVD. Working closely designer, rendered supporing disgrame another projact charge of pects, ste ‘The mastarlan to the right ie a diagram showing bulding height massing The diferent areas along the waterfront development ‘The perspective below shows a typical plaza space between 2 readentiel/commercal stone on the opposite pags sh itn +. F ma! a ee 8 FF wsMISCELLANEOUSGRAPHIC DESIGN ndscapes of David tynch sriMIXED MEDIA,MODEL MAKING 1 of Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial by MechHAND DRAWING Pee tar i aTHANK YOU