James Pelletier Architecture Portfolio

PORTFOLIO + RESUME

JAMES PELLETIER

JAMES PELLETIER CURRENT 102 The Knoll Ithaca, NY 14853

PERMANENT 9 Brickyard Lane Nashua, NH 03062

[email protected] 321 4012

EXPERIENCE

EDUCATIONCornell University_Ithaca NY_College of Architecture, Art, and Planning_Bachelor of Architecture_May 2010_Cumulative GPA: 3.82_Dean’s List Throughout

Cornell Rome Program_Rome ITALY_College of Architecture, Art, and Planning_Fall 2008

AWARDS

Second Year Design Competition_First PlaceYork Prize_First Year Design Competition_Honorable MentionSeipp Prize_Third Year Design Competition_Honorable MentionNashua Teachers Union Scholarship

SKILLS

2-D Programs_AutoCad_Adobe Photoshop_Adobe Illustrator_Adobe InDesign_Adobe Premier_PowerPoint_Excel

3-D Programs_Rhinoceros_Grasshopper_Maya_SketchUp_Form Z_SurfCam_Catalyst_Ecotect

Machinery_CNC 3-Axis Mill_3-D Printer_Laser Cutter_Various Wood Working Equipment_Various Metal Working Equipment

ACTIVITIES

Solar Decathlon Team_Worked in the design studio to develop the 2009 CUSD house

Delta Chi Fraternity Member

Wood and Metal Workshop Teaching Assistant _Department of Architecture_Cornell University_Ithaca NY_Underwent a four month training course to master the use and safety of wood and metal working equipment_Acquired knowledge of a catalogue of di�erent advanced operations on each piece of equipment_Responsible for providing advice and assisting peers in the safe use of the shop equipment_Certi�ed in Red Cross First Aid and CPR

Spring 2007 - Present

3-D Fabrication Teaching Assistant _Department of Architecture_Cornell University_Ithaca NY_Gained extensive knowledge of setup process and use of the CNC 3-Axis Mill and the 3-D Printer_Responsible for assisting peers in use of equipment and troubleshooting digital models_Mastered several di�erent methods of 3-D Fabrication to achieve di�erent results

Fall 2007 - Present

Project Leader/Designer_Studio Luz Architects_Boston, MA

Summer 2008

Head Lifeguard_Nashua Country Club_Nashua NH_Trained for 3 months and certi�ed in Red Cross Lifesaving for the Professional Rescuer, First Aid, and CPR_Responsible for interacting with the clientele to make sure their needs are met_Responsible for arranging the schedule and managing the work rotation

Summer 2007 - 2008

_Flip-a-Strip_International Design Competition for Sustainable Strip Malls_Scottsdale AZ_Led the design and fabrication of a canopy structure for the Flip-a-Strip international competi-tion exhibition_Produced a series of digital and physical study models in order to develop a fabrication system_Developed a set of construction drawings for the assembly of the canopy_Conducted extensive materials research

Cornell University

Fall_‘07 Professor Ezra Ardolino

Arch_459_Digital Media Transformative Field_Rendering

JAMES PELLETIER

This project was an investigation in the use of advanced modeling softw iated surface with

Cornell University

Fall_‘07 Professor Paul Anderson

Arch_301_Design StudioProject Partner_Max Davis

Three Year House_Wall Detail Studies_Milled Models

JAMES PELLETIER

With the utilization of new fabrication and construction techniques our goal was to develop a building envelope that could serve as the basis for a

on-site. Through panoramic image analysis each house can be customized for any site condition as well as the preferred lifestyle of the client.

Cornell University


Arch_301_StudioProject Partner_Max Davis

Three Year House_Final House Envelope Detail_Milled Model

JAMES PELLETIER

Final wall panel milled model

OPEN VIEW

NEIGHBORS ROAD

SHADED VIEW

FULL LIGHT

TSEWHTUOS TSAEHTRON

AMBIENT LIGHT FULL LIGHT NO LIGHT FULL LIGHT

ROAD

VIEW_PRIVACY

LIGHT

Cornell University



Three Year House_Panoramic Analysis

JAMES PELLETIER

Analysis and Manipulation of the Panoramic Image in order to derive the building envelope

KITCHEN DINING ROOM LIVING ROOM

BEDROOM BEDROOMBEDROOMPORCH PORCHBATHROOM

Manipulat e building en

PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION

ENVELOPE DETAILS

Cornell University



Three Year House_Envelope Evolution

JAMES PELLETIER

Evolution from Image to Envelope to House Section

PLAN VARIATIONS

OVAL ORIENTATION:Parallel to the tangent

CENTER LINE LOCATIONS:Outside of the tangent

PLAN TYPE:Very privatized rooms for more privacy


CENTER LINE LOCATIONS:On the tangent

PLAN TYPE:Less privatized rooms for a more mixed program house


CENTER LINE LOCATIONS:Inside the tangent

PLAN TYPE:Very Public rooms with a completely mixed program house

OVAL ORIENTATION:Perpendicular to the tangent

CENTER LOCATIONS:Outside the tangent

PLAN TYPE:Rooms are more seperate from the center and deeper

OVAL ORIENTATION:Perpendicular to the tangent

CENTER LOCATIONS:Inside the tangent

PLAN TYPE:

deeper alcoves

Cornell University



Three Year House_Plan Variation Analysis

JAMES PELLETIER

on the degree of overlap and orientation of the peripheral ellipses

CornellUniversity

Fall_‘08 ProfessorPaul Anderson


Three Year House_Interior Rendering

JAMES PELLETIER

Cornell University

Spring_‘06 Professor Felicia Davis

Arch_102_Design Studio First-Year Design Competition_Dwelling Model

JAMES PELLETIER

Cornell University

Spring_‘06 Professor Felicia Davis

Arch_102_Design Studio Artist’s Gallery and Residence_Model

JAMES PELLETIER

Cornell University

Fall_‘07 ProfessorEzra Ardolino

Arch_459_Digital Media Maya_Object Modeling_Corkscrew

JAMES PELLETIER

Cornell University

Spring_‘07 Professor Leonard Mirin

Arch_339_Japan Theory Transformative Box_Sliding Joinery

JAMES PELLETIER

COLLECTOR WALL

CLERESTORYROOF SUPPORT

SKIN

BASE AND SERVICE WALL

NANA WALL

FLOOR SUPPORT

STEEL UNDER STRUCTURE

ACCESS STAIR

PLAN

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

CLOSED PLAN

OPEN PLAN

EXTERIOR DECK

Cornell University

Spring_‘08 Professor Jerry Wells

Arch_302_Solar DecathlonProject Partner_Davin Stamp

Solar Decathlon House_Competition Entry

JAMES PELLETIER

Cornell University

Fall_‘06 Professor Werner Goehner

Arch_201_Design Studio Ithaca Community Center_Inhabitable Bilboard

JAMES PELLETIER

The goal of this project was to rejuvenate a site of urban wasteland in Ithaca, NY created by the intersection of a major highway and a prominent cultural axis. My solution sually collapsing a series of bilboards at this

movement (driving and walking).

Cornell University

Spring_‘07 Professor Arthur Ovaska

Arch_261_Site Planning Corbusier’s Plan for Algiers_Site Model

JAMES PELLETIER

Cornell University

Spring_‘08 Professor Mark Cruvelier

Arch_364_Structural SystemsProject Partner_Matt Eschleman

Structural Model_Yokohama Port Terminal_FOA

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Cornell UniversityRome Program

Fall_‘09 Professor Andrea Simitch

Arch_401_Design StudioProject Partner_Felipe Romero

Fragmented Landscape_Site Plan

JAMES PELLETIER

In order to deal with a highly disrupted urban site adjacent to a bustling new community, the goal was to slip a mixed-use program primarily underneath a large park/landscaped ground plane while still presenting a built up face to the main pedestrian artery. To deal with such a large site in a way that was not overly deterministic, the site was fragmented into a series strips, each with a specific “park” program. Each strip is therefore designed individually as both landscape and building, accomodating the assigned park program.




Fragmented Landscape_Site Exploded Axon

JAMES PELLETIER

Zone 1 1. Width Parameter 15m wide from Western site limit. 2. Program: Interior and Exterior Galleries 3. Adjacent site of land underneath the highway until adjacent apartment complex must be addressed with the same park rules specified in “General Site Rules”. 4. This zone should provide a larger subterranean parking area (75% of lower lever ground surface) as well as a major entrance from Via Praenistina. 5. Zone may extend across train tracks as long as they follow clearing laws, in order to provide easy access to pedestrians on adjacent apartment buildings.

Zone 2 1. Width Parameter 30m wide from Zone 1. 2. Program: Theatre complex 3. Must address the rise in noise level that might occur towards its own buildings as well as its surroundings. 4. Zone can extend across tracks.

Zone 3 1. Width Parameter 20m. 2. Program: Nightlife/Clubs/Bars 3. Must address the rise in noise level that might occur towards its own buildings as well as its surroundings. 4. Zone can extend across tracks.

Zone 4 1. Width Parameter 15m. 2. Program: Restaurants. 3. Zone can extend across tracks.

Zone 5 1. Width Parameter 60m 2. Program: Piazza/Marketplace 3. Must provide permanent commercial programs on its perimeter. 4. Clear and direct access to a train station on the southern tracks.

Zone 6 1. Width Parameter 30m 2. Program: Athletic Fields 3. Must provide adequate night lighting, ball control, as well as seating.

Zone 7 1. Width Parameter 15m 2. Program: Athletic Courts 3. Must provide adequate night lighting, ball control, as well as seating.

Zone 8 1. Width Parameter 20m 2. Program: Pool/Water Complex

Zone 9 1. Width Parameter 15m 2. Program: Open Green Space/Seating Area/Picnic Area.

Zone 10 1. Width Parameter 10m 2. Program: Outdoor Recreational Area/Playground 3. Must provide covered areas for games such as chess or cards.

Zone 11 1. Width Parameter 15m 2. Program: Wooded Area 3. Must provide a major entrance for the subterranean parking.

General Site Rules and Regulations of Il Pignetto Park Progressive Plan

For all zones: 1. All buildings must be built up to the Via Pignetto Vertical plane. 2. Every building should provide a covered walkway of 2.5m wide along the VIa Pignetto with a mini mum of 4m of height. 3. From the Via Pignetto vertical plane no building can exceed the maximum width of 25 m into the site. 4. No building should exceed 24m of height. 5. The built density of the building construction zone shall be a minimum of 90%. 6. Every site should inculde residential, office, and commercial program. 7. Every building should have a private entrance from the ground floor to the residencies above. 8. Every building should offer a public program (which will be specified in the individual zone rules) that deals directly with Via Pignetto. 9. The residency program assigned to every zone will be sensitive to the type of park program assigned to that zone. 10. Every residency should have views to either Via Pignetto or to the park. 11. Every residency should have access to an external area such as a roof terrace, balcony, or interior atrium. 12. 25% of the residency vertical surfaces should be receiving natural light. 13. For the whole building site 105m from the Via Pignetto Vertical plane x (specified zone width), the park construction as well as ground plane manipulation under the building must not exceed 5m high or 5m below ground plane. 14. All zones should have interconnecting underground parking that consumes 25% of the under ground surface area which will be accessed from the Via Praenestina and Via 15. The built density of the ground plane should not exceed 20%. 16. All horizontal surfaces except facades and ceilings have a programmatic function which can be public, semi-public or private use, or have an ecological function. 17. All park zones should address the “Boulevard”. The Boulevard is an area that starts 20 m from the train track limit (southern border) and extends a minimum 5m north. This must be an area that provides a connection to bordering zones by being at ground level as well as providing some important public program that one can easily move cross. 18. Between major park programmatic zones, there will be transitive program strips provided which if bordered should be addressed as an important facade.

ZONE 1

public program_ ART GALLERIESsite width_ 15 Marchitect_ JpA (principal_James Pelletier)

ZONE 1

public program_ WOODED AREAsite width_ 15 Marchitect_ FLIP STUDIO (principal_Felipe Romero)

CROSS AXIS PATHS

in order to connect Via Pigneto to the park boulevard

PARK BOULEVARD

axis connect all of the program strips through the park at a single elevation

Cornell University Rome Program



Fragmented Landscape_Gallery Exploded Axon

JAMES PELLETIER

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BUILDING SKIN GENERATION

LANDSCAPE SKIN

INTERIOR ART GALLERIES_Slipped beneath the new ground plane created by the skin

SKIN_Reconstituted ground plane and building facade that mediates between light and inhabitability

ARTIST APARTMENTS_Typical arangement for both a large (two person) and small (one person) artist residence

CIRCULATION CORE_Central shaft which structures the shifted floor plates and acts as the primary circulation for the building

ZONE 1: PROGRAM_ GALLERIES Section + Plans

Ground Floor Galleries Plan1:200

Artist Apartments (Large + Small Unit1:200

Communal Studio Workspace1:200




Fragmented Landscape_Gallery Plans + Section

JAMES PELLETIER

Fragmented Landscape_Gallery Interior Rendering

JAMES PELLETIER

Cornell University Rome Program



Cornell University

Spring_‘08 Professor Martha Bohm

Arch_363_Site Planning Andrew Dickson White House_Luminaire

JAMES PELLETIER

Dining Room Solarium

ADW HOUSE SITE

BASIC UNITS FOR AGGREGATION

Studio LuzArchitects

Summer_‘08 Anthony PiermariniHansy Better

Project Team_James Henry _Jesen Tanadi

Flip-a-Strip Competition_Canopy Design/Fabrication

JAMES PELLETIER

ELECTROLUMINESCENT FABRIC

THERMO-FORMED H2O PONDS

PHOTOVOLTAIC/ FABRIC SUNSHADES

OPERABLE VENT PANELS

TRANSLUCENT DAYLIGHTING/SUNSHADES

ELECTROLUMINESCENT TAPE

Studio LuzArchitects

Summer_‘08 Antony PiermariniHansy Better

Project Team_James Henry _Jesen Tanadi

Flip-a-Strip Competition_Canopy Design/Fabrication

JAMES PELLETIER

Cornell University

Spring_‘07 Professor Arthur Ovaska

Dragon Day! Dragon Day Float_Recreation of Prof. Arthur Ovaska’s Head

JAMES PELLETIER

James Pelletier Architecture Portfolio

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