NAYELI HENRIQUEZ

Latin-american designer with an academic background in architcture.

Based in Brooklyn, New York.
Originally from Arlington, Texas.

[nayelighenriquez@gmail.com]

[Linked-In, Instagram, Letterboxd]

RESUME

Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Bachelor’s of Architecture
2018 - 2023

Uplift Summit International Preparatory
Graduated Suma Cum Laude
2014 - 2018

Employment

Pink Sparrow
Designer
2024 - Present
Junior Designer
2023-2024

Fisher Marantz Stone
Lighting Design Intern
2022

WCGS Architects
Architectural Design Intern
2021

RPI School of Architecture Website Team
Student Team Leader
2022 - 2023
Website Editor
2021-2022

Research + Teaching

Modular Minimum Home
Undergraduate Research Project
2022

Course Assistant
Integrated Design Studio
Professor Florencia Vetcher
2022

Course Assistant
Architectural Case Studies
Professor Gustavo Crembil
2021

Skills

Modeling Software - Rhino 3D, Autodesk [Revit, AutoCAD, Maya], Grasshopper

Graphic Representation - Autodesk [Revit, AutoCAD], Adobe Suite [Illustrator, InDesign]

Rendering Software - Vray, Enscape, Adobe Suite [Photoshop]

Languages - English, Spanish

Last Updated 25.11.12

SELECTED WORK

1. iDeserve More

Client Work
American Optometry Association x UEG
Temporary Pop-Up
August 2024

In collaboration with United Entertainment Group, Pink Sparrow partnered with the American Optometric Association to design a custom installation that reimagines the eye as a sophisticated piece of technology. The goal here was to bring awareness to how important the eye is to the human body and to get people to the eye doctor.

2. Nike DSG Showroom

Client Work
Nike x Dick’s Sporting Goods
Pittsburgh Showroom
Unbuilt Design Concept
2025

In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nike was looking to remake their Dick’s Sporting Goods showroom. This showroom is responsible for $2 million in earnng for the Nike brand. Pink Sparrow was commissioned to create an eye catching but versatile space that would align properly with their brand values.

3. Stanley x Barbie

Client Work
Stanley x Barbie Decades Collab
Temporary Pop-Up
August 2024

With the release of the decade Barbie x Stanley quencher collab upcoming, Stanley contracted Pink Sparrow to create an unforgettable experience in New York City. The pop-up consisted of eight booths representing the eight decades of barbie that the quenchers were inspired by.

4. room4

Client Work
Google Pixel
Temporary Pop-up
2024

Google Pixel wanted to create a space for people to learn about all the pixel products coming to the fore front. They wanted to showcase how these products could be used in everyday life, whether it was in your home, the studio, a dressing room, or just on your desk all in one pop-up experience.

5. City of Lost Ecologies: Greetings from Las Vegas

Student Work
Professor: Chirs Perry
Architectural Thesis
Spring 2023

This project imagines a possible future for Las Vegas, Nevada by responding to the increasingly dire challenges of climate change in ways simultaneously extrapolative and fantastical, utopian and dystopian. Rooted in self-sustaining technologies and the noble aspiration of revealing newly promising opportunities for the built environment, the project nevertheless remains paradoxically fantastical in its own skepticism.

6. Ethylene Productions

Student Work
Professor: Jillian Crandall
Integrated Design Development Studio
Spring 2022

This building is to be a film production studio that offers all the elements necessary for developing and finishing a film - the editors, writers, and even actors or directors working. This would be because, while the executives and producers would use the office suites, the building would contain film sets, recording studios, and editing rooms. This is to accomplish the goal of being able to produce the entirety of a film with all the necessary resources under one roof.

7. Subversive Infrastructure

Student Work
Professor: Gustavo Crembil
In Collaboration with: Anish De
Fall 2020

This proposal is a multi-use building located in Manaus, Brazil. It is situated on an small river off of the city’s main water body, Rio Negro. The area previously consisted of impoverished neighborhoods known as favelas, and the government relocated
the inhabitants in collaboration with PROSAMIM. With the clearing of the land, there was ability to introduce green space into the surrounding landscape.

8. The Modern Shed

Competition Entry
Professor: Gustavo Crembil
Head Juror: Shane Gavit
Placement: Finalist
Fall 2020

Bringing nature and manmade material together, this cabin design seeks to introduce a piece of modernity into the wilderness of this forest. While doing so, it also wants to keep a sort of essence of what a typical cabin is through the use of certain materials and construction techniques. It accomplishes this by also combining the typical box shape and curviture to, again, bring to opposites together into one structure. This compund seeks to bridge community and isolation as well as modernism and nature.