Aidan Lozano - Architecture Portfolio by Aidan Lozano

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Princeton University, School of Architecture

Texas A&M University, School of Architecture

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Having graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor’s to now pursuing my Master’s in Architecture at Princeton University, I have found an obsession with challenging myself to seek opportunity at every chance I get.

In understanding architecture as a tool of projection, I find myself curious about the architectural project in itself; a project defined through its process and production. Learning through both academia and professional practice, my architectural perspective has become blended to consider theorization, practicality, and sustainability through economy, politics, and social ecologies.

In my role as a worker, an educator, a student, I am consistently looking for opportunities to engage, collaborate, and learn alongside my peers. I cannot wait to have the opportunity to share, explore, and navigate my endeavors!

STUDIO

Princeton University, School of Architecture

two-in-one Core I

Princeton University, School of Architecture building blocks Core I

Orange Slice

ARC 405

Texas A&M University, School of Architecture

Infestation Mechanization

ARC 205

Texas A&M University, School of Architecture

Addressing Food Scarcity

ARC 305

Texas A&M University, School of Architecture

Excess Manipulation Simple Machines HOME-OFFICE

WORKSHOPS PROFESSIONAL

Occidental Petroleum Group PDR Corp.

DIGITAL SOFTWARE

Rhinocerous 3D

Revit

WORK EXPERIENCE

Makerspace Graduate Educator // Princeton University // Princeton, New Jersey

AUG 2024 - PRESENT

Public-oriented position aimed towards providing equipment training, general technical assistance, and one-on-one consultations to patrons from a variety of academic disciplines including the Undergraduate, Graduate, Staff, and Faculty.

Assistant Technical Designer // PDR Corp. // Houston, Texas

JUN 2021 - AUG 2021; JUN 2022 - JAN 2023; MAY 2023 - JUL 2023; JAN 2024 - AUG 2024

My experience was developed through both digital modeling and rendering, production, procurement and submittals of various documentation (construction details, schematic design proposals, project programming, and project analysis), facilitating communication between the client and firm as well as assisting with physical organization within the firm.

EDUCATION

Princeton University // Princeton, New Jersey

AUG 2024 - MAY 2027

Master of Architecture I

Texas A&M University // College Station, Texas

AUG 2020 - DEC 2023

Bachelor’s of Environmental Design, Minor in Sustainable Architecture and Planning

GPA: 3.966

Kyushu University // Fukuoka, Japan

AUG 2023

AWARDS

Robert O. Travis ‘32 Endowed Scholarship

Houston Electrical League Scholarship

Rocco C. Caffarelli Scholarship

William Merriweather Pena Scholarship

George M. & Mary B. Lewis Merit Award

Houston A&M Club Scholarship

Tracey & Connie ‘79 Williford Ring Scholarship

President’s Scholar Program

Freshmen Dean’s Excellence Award

Phi Kappa Phi

SDC 2023

Summer Study Abroad

Lonestar Community College // The Woodlands, Texas

MAY 2021 - JULY 2021

GPA: 4.000

Cy-Fair Senior High School // Cypress, Texas

AUG 2016 - MAY 2020

High School Diploma, Summa Cum Laude

GPA: 4.410

RESEARCH

T4T LAB

SPRING 2022

Infestation Mechanization

RECOGNITIONS

Fresh Vision II

SUMMER 2022

Wright Gallery Exhibition

Dean’s List // School of Architecture

SPRING 2021, FALL 2023

Archisource Drawing of The Year Awards 2022

Applicant

Shortlisted

Texas Society of Architects Studio Awards 2023

Applicant

Archisource Ideas Pocketbook 2023

Publication

Texas A&M Axiom 2022-2023 // 2023-2024

Publication Dezeen // Project Highlight

Publication

INVOLVEMENT

American Institute of Architecture Students // AIAS

Marketing Officer

National Organization for Minority Architecture Students // NOMAS

Marketing Officer

Texas A&M Aggie Honor Council

Council for Minority Student Affairs // CMSA Sustainability LLC // TAMU RESLife

Twelve

A-Line Magazine

Student Publication, Model

HOME-OFFICE // AIAS Spring 2023 Workshop

Brittany Utting, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Rice University

Daniel Jacobs, Instructional Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Houston

Houston, Texas // Princeton, New Jersey

building blocks

ARC 501 // Core I

FALL 2024 // G1

Professor Mónica Ponce de León

Contributions // 3D Modeling, Rendering, Model Making, Drawing, Research, ArcGIS Mapping

This project was calibrated from its site condition, defined by its relation to its corner condition becoming integrated in the network of Camden, New Jersey. In approaching this project, I was keen on how does the human-experience start from this corner, an important contextualized condition shared by the urban fabric of Camden as a whole. In defining this project as a community center, I am interested in what role can a building play in supporting, activiating, and re-establishing what a community is and could be. Doing so, there becmae interest in integrating programs between one another; encouraging interaction through the porosity and permeability of space. Specifically, how does space become an activated program in a building, how can this element of space essentially form, or act, as a medium of interaction in bridging communities together. more or less, how does space define a community center that retroactively create a sense of community. Envisioning this capacity to look over, above, below, and see what else is going on, contributes to this program of what an art gallery can be, what a youth center can become, essentially how a community center can be formed through the community that inhabits; an understanding of community through identity.

Rendered Perspective Drawing

Princeton University

Massing Diagram Drawing

Axonometric Drawing

Map Analysis Drawing

section A section B

section C

Section C Drawing

Section A Drawing

Section B Drawing

North Elevation Render

South Elevation Render

two-in-one

ARC

FALL

Professor Anda French

Contributions // Drawing, 3D Modeling, Model Making

commons

Dictionary of Real Estate Terms

Glossary of Commercial Real Estate

Dictionary of Architecture and Construction

The Dictionary of Urbanism

Common area: Areas of a property that are used by all owners or tenants

Common area: For lease purposes, the areas of a building that are available for the nonexclusive use of all its tenants such as lobbies, corridors, and parking lots.

A large plot of grassy, fenced-in, publicly owned land, generally at or near the center of a village or town; in earlier eras, once shared as a pasture.

A piece of land that belongs to local people collectively, and which is open for public use.

household

Dictionary of Real Estate Terms

Glossary of Commercial Real Estate

Dictionary of Architecture and Construction

The Dictionary of Urbanism

One or more persons inhabiting a housing unit as their principal residence.

A housing unit or residence at a location that is occupied by one or more persons (that is, a social unit comprised of one or more individuals living in the same place).

All persons, including family members and any unrelated persons, who occupy a dwelling unit.

Defined in the UK census as one person living alone, or a group of people (who may or may not be related) living at the same address with common house-keeping, sharing either a living room or a sitting room, or at least one meal a day.

In understanding co-housing, what it means to share a home, to share a space, this project peaked my curiosity in navigating means of ownership in its duality and indivudality. This project became imaginative in speculating the make-up of the household in terms of who are the tenants, what are the spaces they need, what could be the spaces that they share, what are the ways in which both parties would be able to interact. In doing so, it revealed another lens of privacy; what essentially is privitization in a shared home. Through developing this project, I became interested in the ways in commoning the household, how can the household operate as a commons. I saw that the performativity of commoning the space would create dissonance in the privatization of the home; asking these questions again of what becomes privatized, what becomes public. The duplex invites exploration in the performativity of space in its relations to movement, dissonance, instability; circulation. In producing this project, I became very interested in spaces becoming impricated with one another reflecting, again, this relationship between tenant-tenant underneath this understanding of what a duplex is, and what it can become for its users.

The Art of Inequality: Architecture, Housing, and Real Estate, Definitions

Unrolled Elevation Drawing

Plan 03 Drawing

Plan 02 Drawing

Interior Perspective Drawings

Elevation Oblique Drawing

Elevation Study Physical Model

Orange Slice

Contributions // Drawings, 3D Modeling, Model Making, Renderings

Being the last project of my undergraduate curriculum, it was a culmination of integrating structure, systems, and design to construct an architectural project. Our project is a proposal for the Texas A&M Visitor Center that addresses the university’s needs of creating a space to welcome a prospective student body. Part of what makes Texas A&M a defined academic institution, is its strength in upholding tradition. These traditions are ingrained in the university’s current student body as a way to promote the forwardness of the university, the values it highlights, and the strength in community as fostered through the Aggie Network. Our project symbolizes a cultural and educational entrance that redefines the narrative of what it traditionally means to be an Aggie. This microcosmic identity of the building, seen through variation in materiality, that blurs spaces together, creates a building intertwined within itself. The constructed interplay between mass and void relationships, internally and externally, helps create an interactive and celebratory exhibit for the visitor, attracting opportunities that highlights the evolution of Texas A&M University as a 21st century academic institution.

A collaboration with Ekaansh Kalra

Professor Marcel Erminy

FALL 2023 // Y4

ARC405 // Texas A&M Visitor Center

Texas A&M University

Mapping Hidden Events Drawing

Axonometric Drawing

Gypsum Panel

Terrazzo Finish

Decking

Concrete Floor Slab Beam

Sectional Chunk Diagram Drawing

Section AA Drawing

Section BB Drawing

Facade Study Physical Model

Facade Panel Diagram Drawing

Panel Taxonomy Drawing

Northwest Elevation Drawing

Northeast Elevation Drawing

Infestation Mechanization

Texas A&M University

A major part of taking the T4T studio during my undergraduate curriculum was its quality of being a vertical studio. Being able to interact, engage, and learn from upperclassmen through their skills and experiences was pivotal in my own educational development. With the studio heavily ingrained in architectural theorization, usage of AI platforms to create design outputs, and advanced software modeling and rendering, I have gained significant proficiency in these areas that have since translated into the way my projects have been developed and communicated henceforth. Our project addresses concepts of formal and informal distinction that relate the codependency of objects to one another. The distinction that is formed separates the formalized and familiar from the speculative and imaginative worlds between human and nonhuman objects. Our object becomes a living organism in that it gains meaning and signification from the assemblages of objects on various planes that it embodies. These assemblages form interrelations with each other internally and externally with the system; creating tensional infestation between machines, humans, and natural ontologies such as the honeybee.

Contributions // 3D Modeling, Model Making, Research, Rendering, Drawing, AI Machine Outputs, Plaster Casting

A collaboration with Maggie Martin, Sophia Treviño

Professor Patrick Danahy and Gabriel Esquivel

SPRING 2022 // Y2

T4T LAB // Machine Assemblies

Vignette Render

Physical Model

StyleGAN Plan A Drawing

Physical Chunk Model

Addressing Food Scarcity

ARC305 // Texas Targeted Communities, TxTC SPRING 2023 // Y3

Professor Tyrene Calvesbert A collaboration with Samantha Guzman

Contributions // ArcGIS Mapping, Research, Drawing, Rendering, 3D Modeling

Texas A&M University

Ranked nationally, Marion County categorizes itself within the high food insecurity level. These are regions where people are unable to afford an adequate healthy diet. Food deserts are specified areas that feature “large proportions of households with low incomes inadequate access to transportation and a limited number of food retailers providing fresh produce and healthy groceries for affordable prices” (USDA). Our project aims to reformulate food insecurity by considering its pertinence as a challenge of distribution while seeking to transform it through proposing new urban infrastructure given its relevance at multiple scales while extending its use beyond the needs of the under served community. By rethinking the traditional approach to food deserts, our project seeks to be conceptualized in multiple sites at multiple scales. At an urban scale, the selection of sites, with their nearby context, has the potential to redefine the available land, seen as surfaces, in tandem with the possibility for these to extend in the long term. Through the project’s approach, we seek for Jefferson, Texas to become a selfsustaining community that integrates people to the production of locally produced food, as food is reinterpreted as a constant theme that unifies the parts to the whole.

Collection Drawing

Buffer Map Analysis Drawing, ArcGIS Mapping

Defined Underserved Areas, Potential Sites Drawing

Food as Experience, Zoom Analysis Drawing

Food as Production, Zoom Analysis Drawing

Food as Collective, Zoom Analysis Drawing

Food as Production, Axonometric Drawing

Food as Production, Site Plan Drawing

Food as Production, Scales of Production Perspective Drawings

Food as Production, Hydroponic Laboratory Section Drawing

Food as a Collective, Site Axonometric Drawing

Food as a Collective, Section Drawing

Food as a Collective, Taxonomy Drawing

Food as an Experience, Goat Yoga Perspective Drawing

Food as an Experience, Axonometric Drawing

Food as an Experience, Ground Plan Drawing

as an Experience, Section Drawing

Excess Manipulation

AIAS Workshop // HOME-OFFICE, SIMPLE-MACHINES

SPRING 2023 // Y3

Professor Brittany Utting and Daniel Jacobs

A collaboration with Gabrielle González & Queenie Ntoutoume

Contributions // Renderings, Drawing, 3D Modeling, Fabrication, Data Collection

30.607216, -96.351438

00:00 02:00 04:00 06:00 08:00 10:00 12:00 14:00

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g/m3

Texas A&M University

Being the most “hands-on” project in production, I developed a fascination with metal fabrication. Through understanding its material properties, member connections, and design simplicity, I acknowledged the malleability of metal. Through this workshop, led by AIAS, we designed a machine intended to be manipulated as needed by human intervention and desire. It is through this manipulation that creates moments of tension, both externally between the object and the environment as well as internally within form. Through precarious adjustments of the legs, central pillar, and tensile ropes, the object achieves a point of equilibrium. The human desire on the object rejects the notion of a static metallurgic object, transcending the illusion of a simple machine.

Vignette Render

Site Plan Drawing

NON-THREADED ROD

METAL PLATE

Exploded Construction Assembly Detail

Top Elevation Drawing

Front Elevation Drawing

LOCK NUT

ALUMINUM ANGLE 1.5”

LOCK NUT

HEX HEAD SCREW HEX HEAD SCREW

ALUMINUM U-CHANNEL 1”

1:1 Fabricated Physical Model, Photographed on Site

Occidental Petroleum Group

SUMMER 2022 // Y2

Contributions // Rendering, Drawing, 3D Modeling, BIM Software

Houston, TX

I had the opportunity to intern at PDR Corp., a design studio that specializes in architecture interiors. I have been with them for three years, and continuing. During my internship, I have experienced architecture at the human scale as aided through interior design. Through the consideration of materiality, location convenience of power, and the implications of furniture layout, I learned about how all of these factors, including others, play into the human experience in a space. Through my development in a professional design studio, I experienced architecture through practice. Involving myself in the stages of a project, communicating internally and externally between a project team and its client, as well as being delegated tasks to reach deadlines, contributed to my own professional development.

A collaboration with Robert Olvera, Kristin Simmons, Katy Lopez, Jackie Ontiveros

Interior Render