RAUL SALINAS
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER
E: raulsalinas526@gmail.com
T: (830) 719-6130
OBJECTIVE
-Motivated individual seeking an Architectural role where I can utilize my technical skill set and creativity to contribute to the success of the organization.
EDUCATION
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO
AUGUST 2017-MAY 2022
BACHELORS OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE
EXPERIENCE
LANGUAGES
-Fluent in English
-Proficient in Spanish
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Rhino
Revit
AutoCAD
Sketchup
Grasshopper
Vray
Enscape
Photoshop
Illustrator
Indesign
Microsoft Office
Hand Drawing
PERSONALITY TRAITS
ENGINEERING FOR KIDS
AUGUST 2015 - DECEMBER 2015
-After School Teacher
McAllen TX.
-Taught K-8 Grade Students Science and Robotics in a Comprehensive and Hands-on After-School Program.
IMANI HOUSE
AUGUST 2015 - DECEMBER 2015
-After School Teacher
Brooklyn NY.
-Taught Visual Arts to Grades K-5 at a Non-Profit focused on “Assisting Marginalized Youth, Families & Immigrants to Create Vibrant Neighborhoods”.
WILDARTS NYC
SEPTEMBER 2022 - JULY 2023
-S.T.E.A.M. After School Teacher
Manhattan NY.
-Taught Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math to grades Pre-K through 5th in Non-Profit.
AWARDS
2021 CACP AWARD NOMINEE
-Nomination from the UTSA Department of Architecture for a 2021 Department of Architecture Award. This nomination is a significant honor that recognizes talent, hard work, and intellectual contributions to the Department.
-Problem Solver, Leadership Experience, Communication Skills, Fast Learner, High Energy, Open Minded, Creative, Collaborative Talent, Organizational Skills, Adaptable, Self-Accountable, Honest, Ethical, Loyal.
BISOCIATION
The simultaneous mental association of an idea or object with two fields ordinarily not regarded as related.
defined
-Year 2 Project
-Individual work
Mission Reach Trail/ San Antonio River
San Antonio, TX.
Fall Semester 2019
-Year 2 Project
-Individual work
The Historic Pearl/ San Antonio River
San Antonio, TX.
Fall Semester 2019
pp. 29-38
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pp. 23-28
-Year 4 Project
-Collaborative work
Team leader/manager. Concept design. Grasshopper script. Renders. Fall Semester 2022
-Year 2.5 Project
-Collaborative work
Creative concept design. Grasshopper script. Renders.
Summer Semester 2020
pp. 15-22
BIKE & KAYAK
Located on the San Antonio River, Bike & Kayak is a multi-use outdoor recreation complex, hosting a multitude of amenities and services, including bike, kayak, and equipment rental, as well as an outdoor gear shop, cafe, rest pavilion, and restrooms. The form of this project takes its inspiration from stratified limestone, specifically the naturally eroded, stepped, rock outcrops common to the area. Using varying roof and floor plate heights, as well as ramps, steps, and board form concrete; Bike & Kayak blends into its natural surroundings.
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B & K - Desert Roof-Scape
RAMP ENTRANCE
Via ramps, visitors are drawn through one space and into anoth- Via ramps, visitors are drawn one space and into another. Creating an uninterrupted flow towards function, however er. an flow towards however indirect, in order to produce unique experiences. Providing visitors a moment to contemplate nature, and the adventure ahead of them. Two monolithic walls make up the entrance, guiding guests in, while immersing them into the serene, designed landscape.
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PROGRAM DIAGRAM
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The Mission Reach Trial, a 16 mile long bike and hiking trail runs along side the San Antonio River. With the trail head located just north of the Project, the entrance opens north, parallel to the trail and leads guests to the bike rental and shop. Following the ramps and stairs down towards the river, visitors are guided to the kayak rental and cafe which face south, following the flow of the river.
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Bike & Kayak - River View
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Hand Drawn Plan and Elevation
SECTION DIAGRAM
An emphasis on materials, textures and construction, Bike & Kayak’s use of raw concrete and massive forms creates a sense of weight, and scale, lending well to it’s building typology. Ornamentation is replaced with expressive forms and the use of natural light to produce unique experiences. Facades, shifting roof heights, and light wells help implement light as a building material.
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LIMINAL PAVILION
The Pandemic brought with it innumerable losses, one of which is the loss of connection, our connections to loved ones, friends, coworkers, and so on. The goal of this pavilion is to reflect in its design the almost ordinary settings we reside in, as well as the altogether strange and unconventional connections we have to the people around us. This parametrically designed pavilion, made up of powder coated aluminum panels, stretches across the site in the form of strange, undulated, ribbons that culminate into several rectilinear nodes.
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L-Pavilion - Mother and Son
GIVE IN
Each render in this project serves as an art piece, a visual representation of the feelings we had during the pandemic. The pavilion, and the people in it, serving as the main subjects. “Give In” tells a story of our voluntary surrender towards a diff erent way of life; a way of life that will eff ect our connections to the world and the people around us.
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ALL TOGETHER
The “Nodes” are made up of two or more “Ribbons” perfectly square to one another, creating a more familiar, ordered, form of shelter. This represents our homes, unchanged by the events... ordinary. These rectilinear structures then stretch out, switching from roof to wall in an undulated, unpredictable fashion; expressing the strange connections we have to the people around us.
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L-Pavilion - Kids At Play
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L-Pavilion - South Elevation
L-Pavilion - North Elevation
OVERCAST
Weston Urban, the developers of the Frost Tower in Downtown San Antonio Tx, tasked us to design a shading device that covers Legacy Park, adjacent to their building. Their requests included a shading device that was transparent enough to keep their landscaping healthy, but opaque enough to shade the park; the ability to transform the configuration in order to change the shadows cast on the site. Additionally, they asked for the ability to compress the shading device into a small enough package that could be stored above the existing pergolas, and light enough to hang from two light poles.
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- Pergola View
Overcast
CONCEPT PROPOSAL
A single ribbon of thin polycarbonate sheeting flexes and bends onto A ribbon of thin flexes onto itself to form our cloud configurations. Determined by a grasshopper to our Determined a script, the ribbon follows contour lines that shape it into its thallus formation. Each point of contact of the contour lines serves as a welding point, that keeps the structure from unwinding. The clouds are hung from a wire system that enables the translation of their position. Their construction allows them to be store neatly above the pergolas.
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Overcast - Pergola View 2
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Grasshopper - Cloud Forming Script
Grasshopper - Thallus Script
PIEDRAS
A contemporary art museum, Piedras is located on the San Antonio River across from the historic Pearl in Downtown San Antonio, TX. Travertine boxes housing galleries jut out of the subterranean museum into a serene, green water-scape. As the name Piedras (spanish for rocks) suggests, the inspiration for this project came from the sedimintary rock formations that line many of the rivers in the area. Extending from the banks, these formations create a more sudden, and less gradual descent towards the river.
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River Green-Scape
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PIEDRAS - STREET VIEW
hood to The Historic Pearl in a more diff used and welcoming way that was missing from the site previously. From the street side, the main museum and water-scape are hidden, only visible are the monolithic galleries that protrude from the serene grassy fields creating spaces to relax and picnic.
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PROGRAM DIAGRAM
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Starting from the upstairs Lobby, or the downstairs entrance through the Cafe, visitors enter into an L shaped subterranean museum that surrounds a water-scape courtyard. Large travertine galleries break the continuity of the space, creating opportunities for special exhibits in their interior and more space for art on their exterior.
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Piedras - Interior Museum
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River Level - Floor Plan
Street Level - Floor Plan
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PIEDRAS - RIVER VIEW
A majority of Piedras’ programmatic elements face East, utilizing The Historic Pearl, and the San Antonio River as a framed background. An example of this, the theater located on the southern end of the site uses curtains as a way of giving presenters the choice of either a white backdrop or the lively river and Pearl behind them.
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