MICHAEL FEINBERG RIBAmyfeinberg@gmail.com | +972 (0) 52 323 3052 | modi’in 6a/8, tel aviv 6249454

LANGUAGESEnglish - Native, Hebrew - Fluent, Knowledge of French and Italian

SOFTWAREAutoCAD, Vectorworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, SketchUp, Microsoft Office

EXPERIENCE

2011 – 2014 ASSOCIATE | HEAT ARCHITECTURE, LONDON, UKActed as project architect on several prestigious residential projects in central London.Assisted the director in the day to day management of the office.Provided regular communication to clients through meetings, telephone conversations, emails and letters.Liaised with other consultants including engineers, interior designers, party wall surveyors and his-toric building consultants.Prepared and submitted planning applications, including applications for development in conserva-tion areas and alterations to listed heritage buildings.Researched heritage buildings and drafted Heritage Statements in support of planning applications.Prepared concept designs and sketch plans.Prepared and coordinated documents for tender and construction including drawings and specifications.Drafted and issued contract administration documents including Instructions and Certificates.Liaised regularly with general contractors and attended weekly site visits during constructionKey projects:

Extension and comprehensive refurbishment of a five-storey house in North London. Contract • value - £2.4 million.Refurbishment, extension and restoration of a grade II listed heritage building in Knightsbridge, • London. The works include construction of a new basement and mansard roof extension, and the restoration of lost historic details. Contract value – £6.4 million.Extension and refurbishment of a two-storey maisonette on the lower floors of a five-storey, his-• toric listed house in North London. The works will involve construction of two new basements under the front and rear gardens. Contract value - £2.9 million.

2008 – 2009ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT | AZMAN ARCHITECTS, LONDON, UKPrepared drawings for presentation, planning approval, tender and construction on a number of resi-dential refurbishment projects in central London.Wrote and revised specifications in NBS format.Researched construction products including sanitary ware, interior and exterior finishes. Assisted in the preparation of presentation material for a design competition.Issued Architect’s Instructions to contractors.

MICHAEL FEINBERG RIBAmyfeinberg@gmail.com | +972 (0) 52 323 3052 | modi’in 6a/8, tel aviv 6249454

2006 – 2007ARCHITECTURAL INTERN | KOLKER KOLKER EPSTEIN ARCHITECTS, JERUSALEMPrepared material for presentations including orthographic drawings, perspective renderings and Powerpoint slide shows.Collaborated in the schematic design for a residential development, which included 350 units, retail and a multilevel parking garage.Prepared detailed urban plans (TABA) using MAVAT software.Participated in the preparation of an entry for an urban design competition in Tel Aviv which included a new transportation hub and a master plan for the surrounding mixed-use neighbourhood.Assembled building permit applications.Translated and edited promotional material including portfolios and resumes.

August – December 2005ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT | DIAMOND AND SCHMITT ARCHITECTS, TORONTOParticipated in an architectural design team for The Shakespeare Theatre, a classical theatre in Wash-ington, D.C., during tender and contract administration phases.Prepared drawings for tender, addenda, construction change directives and request for information responses.Assisted in the distribution and review of shop drawing submittals.

January – April 2005ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT | STANTEC ARCHITECTURE LTD., EDMONTON, CANADAPrepared construction drawings, site instructions, change orders and development permit drawings.Constructed physical and computer models to facilitate project design and presentation.Researched sustainable design options for projects that were applying for LEED accreditation.Prepared educational documents for internal training sessions about sustainable design and LEED.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Chartered Architect, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2013 Registered Architect, Architect’s Registration Board of the United Kingdom, 2013

Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Practice and Management, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, 2013 Master of Architecture, University of Waterloo, 2010 Honours Bachelor of Architectural Studies, University of Waterloo, 2008

Teaching Assistant, ARCH 392 Third Year Design Studio, Winter 2010 Teaching Assistant, ARCH 260 Principles of Structures, Fall 2009

Faculty of Engineering Upper-Year Scholarship, 2007 Scholarship for Excellence in Steel Design - SSEF 2006 Sweets Catalogue Award, 2004

HEAT Architecture HOUSE IN ST JOHN’S WOOD | LONDON

This house was originally constructed in 1858 as the vicarage of a nonconformist church. It became a private residence when the church was dissolved in 1924. When we first visited the house, it only presented a few hints of its former use, including a two-storey tall stained-glass window in the stairwell and unusually high ceilings. When the modern partitions on the first floor were removed, the original reception room was revealed: a dual aspect room occupying the entire floor with four full-height windows. The space was restored to its former glory.

Although the house has five storeys including the basement, the main stair only reached the ground, first and second floors. The basement and third floor could only be reached from small secondary stairs. This may have been appropriate for a Victorian household, since it kept the servants out of sight, but it was inconvenient in a modern family home. It also compromised the layout of almost every floor of the house.

This idiosyncratic arrangement was replaced with a new helical staircase that spans the full height of the house. The new stair employs a structural steel balustrade, which was water-jet cut in an open tracery pattern that allows light to penetrate the depth of the house.

The works included new finishes and services throughout; custom made joinery, including the kitch-en; and a fully glazed rear extension. I acted as project architect for this project and was involved in all aspects of the project, including the initial design sketches, planning applications, construction drawings and communications with the main contractor once work began on site.

HEAT Architecture HOUSE IN KNIGHTSBRIDGE | LONDON

This house, built in 1843 to a design by the architect George Basevi, is a grade II listed heritage build-ing. However, little of the original interior survived following unsympathetic alterations in the 1980’s. After extensive historical research and investigation of the house and its neighbours, we were able to reconstruct the original decorative scheme and restore the timber mouldings and decorative plaster-work as part of the alterations.

The floor area was increased by over a third by excavating a new basement under the front garden and adding a mansard roof extension. A poorly built single storey rear extension was replaced with a fully glazed steel structure that included a walk-on structural glass roof. The works also included extensive structural alterations and repairs; new mechanical and electrical services; specialist interior finishes; and an elevator.

My role on the project involved managing a large design team based in New York, Milan and Lon-don as well as handling the relationship with the main contractor, a large publicly-listed company. This included chairing weekly site meetings, issuing instructions under the contract, and reviewing valuations.

HEAT Architecture APARTMENT IN ST JOHN’S WOOD | LONDON

This project involves the extension and refurbishment of a two-storey apartment on the lower floors of a five-storey grade II listed heritage building. The works will involve construction of an extensive new basement family room below the rear garden, lit by a new lightwell, as well as extensive structural alterations and refurbishment to the existing accommodation.

My role on this project included attending design meetings with the clients; liaising with members of the design team including the structural engineer, mechanical and electrical engineer, heritage consultant and arboriculturalist; preparing and submitting planning applications; liaising with the local authority’s planning officers after the applications were submitted; supervising a team of architectural assistants in the office who prepared the tender drawings; and drafting specifications, schedules and contract preliminaries.

HEAT Architecture HOUSE IN ISLINGTON | LONDON

This early-Victorian terrace house had suffered from years of neglect and movement in the shal-low foundations had destabilised the rear wall. The house was fully refurbished and consolidated structurally.

The ramshackle rear extension was demolished entirely and replaced; the original part was rebuilt in a traditional style to match the house with a single storey infill in glass. The lower ground floor was opened up to form an open plan living space. This required structural alterations and the replace-ment of the staircase on two levels. To meet building regulations, a fire curtain was installed that will separate the open plan kitchen from the egress stair in the event of a fire.

I took over as project architect on this project two weeks after work started on site and ran the project through to completion. This included revising and issuing drawings for construction; drafting and issuing instructions and certificates under the contract; attending weekly site meetings; solving problems as they arose on site; and providing the clients with regular updates on the progress of their house.

Kolker Kolker Epstein Architects RESIDENCES AT BAYIT INTERCHANGE | JERUSALEM

This is a design for a residential housing development of seven towers in south-west Jerusalem. A tunnel concealing the Begin Expressway runs below the centre of the site which required careful design of the structure for the new apartment buildings.

The development is designed to link the urban fabric of the adjacent neighbour-hoods across the expressway. It contains 350 residential units as well as a multilev-el parking garage. My role included the preparation of plans, sections, elevations, unit plans and rendered 3D views.

Kolker Kolker Epstein Architects NORTH JERUSALEM | DETAILED URBAN PLAN (TABA)

This project is part of a large urban planning effort for a large area of northern Jerusalem. There is no modern planning regulations in the area and as a result no building permits can be approved. The plan will create a regulatory environment to allow new building to proceed in the area in an organized manner.

My duties included preparing plans specifying land use, parcel boundaries and building lines; coordi-nating parcel areas with figures received from the surveyor and land appraiser; and preparing plans for final submission. Plans were prepared using MAVAT software.

Kolker Kolker Epstein Architects TEL AVIV 2000 DESIGN COMPETITION

The competition included the design of a new inter-modal transportation hub and an urban neighbour-hood, anchored by a rebuilt central train station and bus station.

My duties included the preparation of plans, sec-tions, elevations and layouts in AutoCAD and ren-dering them in Photoshop. I also assisted in the preparation of the written report.

Diamond and Schmitt Architects SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY | HARMAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS

During my employment at Dia-mond and Schmitt Architects, I was a member of the architectural team for The Harman Center for the Arts, a complex multi-use building in Washington, D.C. that includes a flexible performance hall, front and back of house areas, as well as commercial office space.

My duties included the prepara-tion of drawings for tender, addenda, building permit and construction change directives. I also reviewed shop drawings and answered requests for informa-tion from the contractors.

Master of Architecture Thesis MACHANE YEHUDA MARKET | JERUSALEM

Modern Jerusalem has developed against a background of conflict, between the European powers and the Ottoman Empire, between Jews and Arabs and between religious and secular Jews. The thesis investigates this urban condition through detailed study of a particular institution, Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda Market. Since its foundation at the end of the nineteenth century, the market has undergone numerous transformations as the city grew and the conflict evolved but, through-out, it has remained a rare place of cultural and economic exchange between otherwise separate communities.

The cosmopolitan character of the market suggests a more hopeful alternative for the city and the re-gion, but this character is threatened by changing circumstances. Persistent sectarian tensions con-tinue to encourage increased segregation and, at Machane Yehuda, the problem is compounded by a severe lack of infrastructure, which restricts the market’s ability to operate in the face of increased economic competition and the redevelopment of the surrounding area.

In response to these operational requirements, a new logistics terminal is proposed for Machane Yehuda. A cargo tram, that uses the rails of the new LRT system, supplies the terminal with goods without overburdening the road network. By ensuring the market’s economic viability, the terminal will sustain an institution that encourages coexistence in the centre of Jerusalem.

Bachelor of Architecture Final Project CANADIAN PAVILION | CAMBRIDGE, ONTARIO

This pavilion would house the Canadian exhibit at a proposed North American location of the Venice Biennale. The Pavilion is located on the banks of the Grand River in downtown Cambridge, Ontario. Its form is inspired by the adjacent flood protection earthworks that line the river. An articulated landscaped roof creates new pedestrian connections between the street, the riverbank and the sur-rounding gardens.

Two distinct galleries are provided: a subterranean hall located below the landscaped roof and an elevated volume that provides views of the city and river valley. A glazed circulation core, containing a gift shop and cafe links the two spaces.

Bachelor of Architecture Rome StudioPORTA FURBA | ROME, ITALY

This project is the result of a semester of study in Rome, Italy. The site, located in the southeastern suburbs of the city, is dominated by two ancient aqueducts and surrounded by modern roads and railways. The project contains a variety of public programs intended to serve the local community and integrate the site into the fabric of the surrounding neighbourhoods.

The buildings are placed between the ruins and infra-structure in order to define two new public spaces: a piazza that forms the entrance to the complex and an archeological garden in between the aqueducts. The design of the piazza uses existing monuments to create a space characteristic of Rome’s historic fabric. The Aqua Felice encloses two sides and it is enlivened by a historic fountain and the Porta Furba, a monumen-tal arch which marked the spot where the aqueduct crossed Via Tuscolana. The library completes the en-closure, shielding the space from the busy traffic route adjacent. The archeological park is lowered to the level of the Roman countryside, two meters below the mod-ern city. It is characterized by Roman remains which surround it.