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
Fall_‘07 Professor Paul Anderson
Arch_301_StudioProject Partner_Max Davis
Three Year House_Final House Envelope Detail_Milled Model
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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
Fall_‘07 Professor Paul Anderson
Arch_301_Design StudioProject Partner_Max Davis
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
Fall_‘07 Professor Paul Anderson
Arch_301_Design StudioProject Partner_Max Davis
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
OVAL ORIENTATION:Parallel to the tangent
CENTER LINE LOCATIONS:On the tangent
PLAN TYPE:Less privatized rooms for a more mixed program house
OVAL ORIENTATION:Parallel to the tangent
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
Fall_‘07 Professor Paul Anderson
Arch_301_Design StudioProject Partner_Max Davis
Three Year House_Plan Variation Analysis
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on the degree of overlap and orientation of the peripheral ellipses
CornellUniversity
Fall_‘08 ProfessorPaul Anderson
Arch_301_Design StudioProject Partner_Max Davis
Three Year House_Interior Rendering
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Cornell University
Spring_‘06 Professor Felicia Davis
Arch_102_Design Studio First-Year Design Competition_Dwelling Model
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Cornell University
Spring_‘06 Professor Felicia Davis
Arch_102_Design Studio Artist’s Gallery and Residence_Model
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Cornell University
Fall_‘07 ProfessorEzra Ardolino
Arch_459_Digital Media Maya_Object Modeling_Corkscrew
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Cornell University
Spring_‘07 Professor Leonard Mirin
Arch_339_Japan Theory Transformative Box_Sliding Joinery
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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
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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
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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.
Cornell UniversityRome Program
Fall_‘09 Professor Andrea Simitch
Arch_401_Design StudioProject Partner_Felipe Romero
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
Fall_‘09 Professor Andrea Simitch
Arch_401_Design StudioProject Partner_Felipe Romero
Fragmented Landscape_Gallery Exploded Axon
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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
Cornell UniversityRome Program
Fall_‘09 Professor Andrea Simitch
Arch_401_Design StudioProject Partner_Felipe Romero
Fragmented Landscape_Gallery Plans + Section
JAMES PELLETIER
Fragmented Landscape_Gallery Interior Rendering
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Cornell University Rome Program
Fall_‘09 Professor Andrea Simitch
Arch_401_Design StudioProject Partner_Felipe Romero
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
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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
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Cornell University
Spring_‘07 Professor Arthur Ovaska
Dragon Day! Dragon Day Float_Recreation of Prof. Arthur Ovaska’s Head
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