2024 Portfolio

AARON RECALDE

Architecture Portfolio

AARON RECALDE

626 - 394 - 3898

aarondrecalde@gmail.com

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EDUCATION

Andrews University

Andrews University

Andrews University

WOODSHOP ASSISTANT

Andrews University

TUTOR MENTOR

Andrews University

As a graduating architecture student passionate about community outreach and design, I’m driven to create solutions that address the needs of the people around me.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Colonial Gardens Nursing Home

tamarak@andrews.edu hurstt@andrews.edu

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Haven

Kitchen Remodel

Worship + Community Center

Adaptive Reuse House

Store on Colorado St.

Analytical Sketches

SCHOOL WORK

Haven

Fulton Market | Illinois | U.S.A.

Fulton Market, located on the Near West Side of Chicago, has undergone a significant transformation in recent years, evolving from a historic meatpacking district into a bustling hub for tech companies, trendy restaurants, and high-end retail. With an increase in trendy restaurants, bars, and boutiques, it has become a hub for foodies, fashionistas, and tourists. However, with the neighborhood’s rapid development, the need for places to take care the influx of residents has become more apparent. As such, Fulton Market needs a “Haven” - a building that can serve as a one-stop-shop for medical offices and clinics that provide accessible and affordable healthcare to the community. It would help bridge the gap between the area’s high-end amenities and the essential services necessary to support a healthy community. Consisting of retail spaces on the first floor, offices on the second and third, and an apartment building on the North side of the lot, this development has it all.

Site Analysis

Massing Diagrams

Worship + Community Center

Pasadena | California | U.S.A.

This project is located in Old Town Pasadena, California. It is a mixed-use building with a restaurant, offices, classrooms, affordable housing and a worship space. Designed with the intent to have affordable housing for single parent families and offices to help rehabilitate or counsel those in need. A medium sized worship space for the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The goal was to create an urban oasis for people to come together and help each other. Pasadena is a city that is rich with community and young families. My mission for this project was to give that same opportunity to single parent families and provide a space where these families can lean on each other. One of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church’s main beliefs is a focus on health. The first floor is dedicated to healing the stomach and also the mind. A cafe-bookstore selling Adventist books and caffeine-free drinks is open to the public. Inside the building there are offices for those that need counseling, be it relational or mental.

South Elevation

Site Analysis

Program

East Elevation

E-W Section

1st Floor with Context

2nd Floor

4th Floor

3rd Floor

Partial Elevation

N-W Section

Store on Colorado St.

Pasadena | California | U.S.A.

Old Town Pasadena contains a community that has diversified and grown so much over the past years but still continues to honor the long history of the land. Colorado street is the current hub of development and tourism for Pasadena. This project is a mixed-use building that is designed to celebrate the local character of the historic buildings in the district and to be functional for the people of today. Two apartments, 1 loft and 1 bedroom, reside on top of a retail space that is available for rent. The site has a central courtyard and I wanted to allow access to the retail space from both sides. Design considerations throughout the process included: local vernacular with the surrounding buildings, construction materials and design that are available for the region, and how a retail and residential space can work together.

Elevation with Context

Precedent and Character

Site Analysis

E-W Building Section Elevation

1st Floor

2nd Floor

PERSONAL PROJECTS

Kitchen Remodel

Pasadena | California | U.S.A.

This was a project for my home church in Pasadena, California. With a growing congregation and a mission to be more active in the community, their current facilities were outdated. The old kitchen, that has not been renovated in over 20 years, needed an update. I was commissioned to document the old kitchen plan and create plans for a new kitchen with specifications. To promote fundraising I also worked on renders that could be shown to the congregation. This was my first time using revit and rendering. This was also the first time I did an on-site analysis and measurement of the project.

Existing Kitchen Renders

Existing Kitchen Floor Plan

Remodeled Kitchen Floor Plan

Adaptive Reuse House

Mizata | El Salvador

Client recently purchased two plots of land in El Salvador to build their dream home and retire. They enlisted my help to visualize their dream to bring to the local architect in El Salvador. This project involves a parcel with an old house. The client hoped to be able to use this old house and adaptively reuse it to create a much nicer and livable house while they start working on their actual dream house on another plot of land. Once the other house is finished, the client wishes to turn this project into a rental dwelling unit, possibly airbnb. With an emphasis on sustainable and local resources, the client wanted a rustic vacation getaway. This was a good challenge because there was very limited documentation and it was my first project using the metric system.

Section Elevation

Site Analysis

Precedent

1st Floor

2nd Floor

1st Floor

2nd Floor

DRAWINGS

ANALYTICAL SKETCHES

United States of America

AARON RECALDE