Andrea Dominguez Portfolio 2018

Andrea Dominguez Architectural Portfolio Selected Works 2018

Syracuse University School of Architecture Bachelor of Architecture 2018 Canditate

Table of Contents Academic Work A Tale of the Anthropocene: Visualization through Materiality 05 Reconfigurable Temporal 21 Re-inhabiting the National Theatre 31 Cayuga Works 41 Doomsday: Treevault 51

Other Work Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: Chicago Biennial New Glarus Documentation Model of Rhetorical Parts Acts of Appropriation

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01 A Tale of the Anthropocene: Visualization through Materiality Humans have transformed more than fifty percent of the Earth’s land area for our own purposes, which has become a validation of the Anthropocene. Deforestation, as a factor in the transformation of land, contributes to the cutting of fifteen billion trees each year.

It is important to know that deforestation is tied to illegal logging or areas which are not managed to ensure forest regeneration.

The challenge currently is how to best address environmental disasters beyond the usual apocalyptic cultural imaginary. How does one perceive, interpret, and represent climate, when people can experience local weather but not the global effects of climate change? How can one bring awareness through architecture?

Materiality, construction, and representation were explored as tangible means of spatializing, visualizing and brining awareness to the effects of deforestation.

Fall 2017- Spring 2018 Syracuse, NY Advisors: Julie Larsen and Roger Hubeli Collaborator: Shaguni Gupta

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Academic Work

This is the Tale of the Anthropocene, the era in which humans have impacted the environment, a story that speaks to the intertwined concerns of visualizing climate change and spatializing effects that deforestation has on landscapes through materiality.

Theory and practice of the conquest of nature has become integrated into Western aesthetics throughout the Anthropocene. By analyzing some historical representations of our relationship with nature we have begun to question our current agenda.

Nicholas Mirzoeff in his Public Culture essay states that “Anthropocene visuality keeps us believing that somehow the war against nature that Western society has been waging for centuries is not only right; it is beautiful, and it can be won.�

Previous architectural history has struggled to produce methodologies that respond to the implications of our conditions with nature. We are at a turning point where we must begin to shift our perception of the Anthropocene, to pose a radical gesture of renewed equality between living people and those nonhuman actors.

Representations of Nature vs Humans

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A Tale of the Anthropocene

Indonesia has the fastest rate of deforestation in the world. Three different site conditions have been explored in Indonesia that have been altered as a result of deforestation. Over time the environment will shape and altere the architecture.

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Proposal for current visualization of Nature

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Academic Work

Habitat Shelter As one moves between those timber manufactured structures, one can distinguish the pockets that now house a variety of wildlife. A few paces forward, one can barely distinguish the timber members from those of the tree branches as they become tangled and morphed into one. Along the path there is a collapsed frame that has been dilapidated by the relentless growing forest.

The intervention has become a shelter that houses habitat life.

At moments it sits permanently on this edge between forest and agriculture, and at times it is engulfed in nature’s unpredictable growth.

Site Plan

The edge condition in West Kalimantan. It was once a place where vegetation flourished uncontrolled, untouched by humans but has now disappeared because of economic need of palm oil plantations. Now, it is a forest that has been substantially cleared, compromising local species of flora and fauna, and has left no other alternative than for animal species to migrate, even with government efforts to preserve.

Migration Map

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A Tale of the Anthropocene

Exploded Axon

Aerial Perspective

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Academic Work

Plywood Models

Sectional and assembly detail

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A Tale of the Anthropocene

Sectional Perspective

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Academic Work

Timber Tower As one reaches the fifteenth floor, past the undulating wall and through the plywood screens, one looks out to the city, and sees a clouded silhouette of the skyline, a misty haze.

In the distance, a new kind of tower rises in the urban fabric as a vertical park. Its timber structure holds many thresholds where contaminated air passes through to interact with visitors.

Over time, this air will be stored, absorbed and visibly degrade the material.

Site Plan

Jakarta, the world’s second largest megacity experiences a number of challenges, including air pollution. The absence of forest in this urban area has reduced sequestration of increasing greenhouse gas emissions. It has been estimated that approximately 2,000 million metric tons of carbon dioxide are produced each year.

The intervention speculates on creating a landscape of structures that soak up emissions.

High-rise Diagram

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A Tale of the Anthropocene

Exploded Axon

Aerial Perspective

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Academic Work

Plywood Models

Sectional and assembly detail

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A Tale of the Anthropocene

Sectional Perspective

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Academic Work

Bamboo Pier Stepping unto the platform, one hears the sounds of the river gushing below and rain striking the bamboo roof. The number of footsteps begins to grow as the water level rises. Across the bamboo screens the number of people sitting, standing, and moving begins to increase as the current takes a fragment of another platform down the violent stream.

Site Plan

The Ciliwung River was previously surrounded by forested watershed that would store and stabilize soil and erosion but has now become a site where extreme flooding is present. The intervention becomes a place of refuge for those in close proximity to the river in times of heavy rainfall.

Flood zones Diagram

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A Tale of the Anthropocene

Exploded Axon

Aerial Perspective

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Academic Work

Plywood Models

Sectional and assembly detail

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A Tale of the Anthropocene

Sectional Perspective

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02 Reconfigurable Temporal Located next to Boston’s Fenway Park, the building explores interior voids and their penetration to the exterior, shaping the mass through subtraction. A series of interior and exterior balconies become the void, meanwhile the central atrium becomes the resultant extraction. These systems became applied as a result of needs for open and flexible spaces.

Fall 2015 Syracuse, NY Professor: Daekwon Park

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Academic Work

Conceptual Diagrams

Massing, reconfiguration, and void studies

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Reconfigurable Temporal

Section

Explores void and interior/exterior terrace conditions

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Academic Work

Plan

Ground Level

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Reconfigurable Temporal

Plan

Second Level

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Academic Work

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Reconfigurable Temporal

Elevation

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Academic Work

Exterior Perspective

Render of exterior terraces

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Reconfigurable Temporal

Interior Perspective

Render of interior terraces

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03 Re-inhabiting the National Theatre The National Theatre, Southbank of the River Thames, is a Brutalist entity from which terraces extend out to the landscape.

Fly towers act as central voids, and rise from the horizontal layering of terraces. In an effort to convert the National Theatre from its current program to an apartment complex, the interior was demolished, leaving the outer terraces where the apartments are located. A series of bridges intersecting to form the core are left as spaces of mobility and flexibility of use.

Fall 2016 London, England Instructor: Davide Sacconi Collaborator: Emma Stoll

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Academic Work

Royal National Theatre, Denys Lasdun

Plan and Section documentation

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Re-inhabiting the National Theatre

Sketches

Exploring reconfiguration of plan and section that accomodates a different program

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Academic Work

Exploded Axonometric

Illustrating the building as a shell, which were previously terraces, that acts as apartments while the interior are places of mobility

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Re-inhabiting the National Theatre

Detail Axonometric and Perspective

Terraces of the building are now occupied as apartments

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Academic Work

Plan

Third Level

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Re-inhabiting the National Theatre

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Fourth Level

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Academic Work

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Re-inhabiting the National Theatre

Sectional Perspective

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04 Cayuga Works A complex for shipbuilders is designed right along Cayuga Lake in Upstate New York. Different structures make up the building according to the program’s needs: a small workshop, offices, gallery, visitor center, apartments and large workshop. The parti becomes a long wall that spans the length of two existing buildings while the structures “plug-in” to the wall. Environmental systems are investigated primarily through the wall, which becomes an electricity generator powered by the winds coming from the lake.

Spring 2017 Syracuse, NY Instructor: Elizabeth Kamel Collaborator: Stephanie White

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Academic Work

1/32’’ Scale Model

The parti as a wall that extends across existing buildings also functions as an element from which three different structures plug-in

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Cayuga Works

Perspectives

Line drawings that privelege views from and towards the lake

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Academic Work

Elevation of Bay and Detail Wall Section

Elevation and Section through garage door for small boats

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Cayuga Works

Exploded Detail of Facade

Panels generate electricity through harvesting of kinetic energy.

Facade orientation faces the lake to allow for optimal wind capture

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Academic Work

Sectional Perspective

Through small boat shed and gallery space on second level

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Cayuga Works

Detail Section

Exterior facade and structural detail

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Academic Work

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Cayuga Works

Elevation

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05 Doomsday: Tree Vault As an attempt to store one element after “Doomsday” the idea was to create a vault that would grow and store trees. Located in one of Madagascar ’s islands, Maroantsetra, an ecological haven where diverse species of plants and animals are kept, was the appropriate location for the growth of mangroves. Just a few miles from the mainland, sedimentation occurs as a result of deforestation. A more speculative project, the vault sees the start of growth of these mangroves to its final stages of development in “boyes” or floating “pods”, to eventually breaking off from the spine of the building and repopulating the island.

Spring 2015 Syracuse, NY Instructor: Julie Larsen Collaborator: Austin Adams

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Academic Work

Narrative Diagrams

Exploration of site and ecological effects of deforestation

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Doomsday: Tree Vault

Concept Diagrams

Systems of water filtration

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Academic Work

Sections

Showing different undulations of the bay

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Doomsday: Tree Vault

Exploded Axonometric

Concrete structure

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Academic Work

Exterior Renders

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Doomsday: Tree Vault

Interior Renders

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Academic Work

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Perspective

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06 Other Work Compilation of work featured from seminars and professional experience. The first project shows my involvement in the Chicago Biennial as an intern with Tatiana Bilbao Estudio. My responsibilities included making the structural components using Rhino, constructing the boxes and coating them with micro cement, and designing the interior of the boxes.

The second project featured is from the seminar “Are we there, there” which investigates how we can construct identity with images. By using New Glarus, Wisconsin as a case study we can question American-Swiss themed building elements that create character and culture in Wisconsin’s Swiss themed town. The second part of this seminar investigated reinterpreting building elements to create alternate images of a place.

Lastly, the seminar “Acts of Appropriation” proposes new ways of thinking about preservation. Exploring interventions at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence one can begin to question to what extend does one need to preserve the authenticity of a building.

Collectively, these projects show range of drawings, modeling and rendering skills.

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Other Work

Image courtesy of ArchDaily

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Completed tower at the Chicago Biennial

As part of Tatiana Bilbao’s team of interns, we designed the structure and made models coated of micro-cement.

Above are photographs of some models I made and designed.

Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: Chicago Biennial

Detail

Showing the interior of models

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Other Work

1/8’’ scale Plywood Model

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Building: The Bank of New Glarus

New Glarus Documentation

Elevation Drawings

Studying Swiss-American building typology

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Other Work

Acrylic Model of Rhetorical Parts

Based on the design of Swiss-American building elements and image-making

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Model of Rhetorical Parts

Unfolded Elevation

Model of Rhetorical Parts

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Other Work

Rendering of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence

Alternative images as acts of appropriation

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Acts of Appropriation

Facade facing Arno River

Transparency of Vasari Corridor

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Andrea Dominguez 6717 Heritage Ridge Way, El Paso, Texas andoming@syr.edu (915) 479-1670

Education

Experience

Affiliation

Honors

2013- present

Syracuse University School of Architecture

Fall 2016 Spring 2016 2011-2012

International Study | London, England International Study | Florence, Italy Munich International School | Munich, Germany

Summer 2014 June 2013

University of Texas at El Paso Coronado High School | El Paso, Texas

Summer 2017

Tatiana Bilbao Estudio | Mexico City, Mexico

Spring 2017

Malaysia Biennial 100YC | Medini 2017

July- Aug. 2016

JT Arquitectura | Juarez, Mexico

July 2015

Architecture et Bois | Lyon, France

Summer 2012

AJA Architects | Coventry, England

Fall 2015

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)

2014- present

Student Liaison Team | School of Architecture

2013-2015

American Institute of Architecture Students

Spring 2015

Winner of Sliver’s Prize Competition

2013-2018

Dean’s Scholarship

Spring 2018 Spring 2018

Citation for Excellence in Thesis Design 2018 James A. Britton Memorial Award Jury Prize

- Syracuse University Dean’s List | Graduation May 2018

- International Baccalaureate Program

- International Baccalaureate Diploma

- Built the digital and physical models of exhibit for Chicago Biennial 2017 - Representing Syracuse University in the international competition - Managing design and fabrication of concrete structures alongside CEMEX engineers

- Designed plans for an administrative area for a community center project - Designed, sketched and developed computer generated drawings (plans, sections, elevations) and renderings of the extension of an existing house - Organized architectural drawings - Designated to draft using AutoCAD

- Collaborated for the ACSA conference in which national and international architecture educators convened to debate the tension between autonomy and contingency - Assisted CEMEX engineers and fabricators to build parts of a concrete pavilion - Designed and 3D printed commemorative ‘objects’ to hand out to presenters - Organized daily events and presentations - Selected to be Peer Advisor - Mentored freshmen students

- Assisted freshmen students in design studio and other architectural courses - Represented school in firm visits (to Toronto and New York City)

- Participated in competition held for students graduating in the class of 2018 - Constructed a hybrid sectional drawing - Granted for academic achievement

- Won competition for best Thesis from graduating class of 2018 before a panel of guest jurors

Skills

Adobe Design Creative Suite | Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign 3D Modeling | Rhinoceros, T-Spline, V-Ray, Grasshopper Drafting | AutoCAD, Revit Physical Model Building | Laser Cut, 3D Print, Hand-craft Languages | English (native proficiency), Spanish (native proficiency), Italian (elementary proficiency)

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