
Catherine Asirifi
Skills
Timeline
Professional experience for Catherine Asirifi
- 1 year and 2 months, Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
Junior Architect
Orthner Orthner & Associates
• Designed the expansion of primary school classrooms for Ghana International School (a prestigious school in Ghana), to include an appealing, refreshing, and relaxing reading nook. This covered all aspects of design from BIM to custom furniture design for optimum ergonomic, functional and aesthetic needs. • Entrusted with independent site inspection duties after proving my reliability and agility, within the first month of working on the expansion of the ICU and Mother & Child Unit of Nyaho Medical Center.
- 1 year, Oct 2019 - Sep 2020
Junior Architect
Cult Meraki Design Studio
• Helped accommodate 1,000 displaced families through the successful design of modular DIY and sustainable emergency housing units in one working day for communities affected by the October 2019 floods in the Upper East Region of Ghana. • Contributed to the design development of modular, sustainable, and affordable housing units, made from local materials like rammed earth and raffia palm.
- 1 year, Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
Architectural Intern
China Shanghai Architectural Design and Research Institute Co. Ltd (CSCEC)
• Working on a luxury mixed-use, high-rise building, DAO Panama, I researched and coordinated with the landscaping department to acquire the required knowledge, which I incorporated into the design of optimized green wall and roof garden systems. • For the firm’s conceptual bidding for Hessa Al Mubarak District Development, an urban redesign of a town district in Kuwait, I created clear and precise analysis diagrams and renderings with Adobe Creative Suite, and modified 3D model in SketchUp.
- 3 months, Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Architectural Intern
China Shanghai Architectural Design and Research Institute Co. Ltd (CSCEC)
• During the construction documentation phase of the Kuwait Olympic Village, I proposed modifications which I used to complete drawing sets in AutoCAD.
Educational background for Catherine Asirifi
- 1 year and 10 months, Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
Master of Architecture
Hochschule Anhalt (DIA)
- 3 years and 11 months, Sep 2014 - Jul 2018
Architecture
Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Languages
English
C2 (Expert / native speaker)
Chinese
B1-B2 (Good)
German
B1-B2 (Good)
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