Architecture Portfolio

ANDREINA SOJO Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio 2017-2020

ANDREINA SOJO

Undergraduate Architecture Student University of Florida, 2020

Objectives Seeking an interesting and challenging role as an Entry Level Architect enabling me to utilize my education, creativity and develop new skills. To obtain a bachelor’s degree in architecture and Master in Acoustic and Biomimetic architecture.

Education

Bachelor of Design in Architecture Minor in Landscape Architecture University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Tau Sigma Spring 2020, First Generation Club Spring 2020, Extreme Dance Fall 2019

May 2021

Associates in Arts in Architecture Broward Community College, Davie, FL. Relevant Honors: Highest Honors Spring 2019; Jack Kent Cooke Semifinalist Spring 2019; Dean’s list, Summer 2017/ Spring 2019; President’s list, Fall 2017/ Summer 2018; Honor Student, May 2019; PTK Student, May 2019

May 2019 GPA: 3.77/4.00

Study Abroad International College of Seville,Seville, Spain.

Relevant Honors: Granada Essay Winner, Spring 2018

May 2018 GPA: 4.0/4.0

University of Seville-Seville, Spain

May 2018 GPA: 4.0/4.0

High School Diploma Colegio “Cristo Rey” de Altamira, Caracas, Venezuela July 2016 Relevant Honors: MUN “Cristo Rey”, May 2015-2016; Academic excellece 2013-2016

Skills

ArchiCAD 22 Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign

Autodesk Autocad Hand Drafting Hand Sketching Lumion Model Making

GPA: 3.93

McNeel’s Rhinoceros 6.0 Microsoft Office Sketchup Revit V-Ray for Rhino

GPA: 3.4-4.00

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UF Gallery

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Bhakty, Yoga Center

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Newnan Lake’s Bath

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Cuzco’s Unwed Mothers Group House

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Cherokee Museum

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Maritime Museum and Welcome Center

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Matrix 2-D Composition Project

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Shape into Form

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UF Gallery Downtown Gainesville, Florida.

UF Gallery Professor Alfonso Perez Downtown Spring 2020 Gainesville, Florida Professor Alfonso Perez The city’s history explains how war, commerce, exploration and Spring 2020 Gainesville’s evolution. Gainesville expansion characterize changed dramatically after the war and it became a professional center.

Through time, city has developed districts and The idea of anthe institution conductedhistoric the project’s process. The has encouraged preservation.

These effortsIt is located architectural its intervention is treated as apreservation vessel for people. involve the restoration of different projects as Thomas Center, the next to the scenic part of downtown Gainesville. The design works with Hippodrome, the Seagle building and the American Legion the cultural context of the city. The inspiration for this project was the building. Gainesville has been a center of reunion among the city patterns and material qualities. The construct’s purpose was to years. The city encourages the community to support local artists create a gathering space for the local community and support talented and preserve historic sites as its twenty significant buildings. artists.

Aerial View

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UF Gallery contemplates Gainesville’s history and it looks for the integration of the local community to its program. It is a gathering space that encourages UF’s values as integrity, diversity, excellence, teamwork, innovation and trust.

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Street View

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The idea of an institution conducted the project’s process. The architectural intervention is treated as a vessel for people. It is located next to the scenic part of downtown Gainesville. The design works with the cultural context of the city.

The inspiration for this project was the city patterns and material qualities. The construct’s purpose was to create a gathering space for the local community and support talented artists.

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Bhakty, Yoga Center Atsena Otie Key, Cedar Key, Florida Professor John Marshall Maze Fall 2019 Concept The program consists in a spiritual journey around the Northwest area of Atsena Ottie Key. Visitors are able to experience seven different types of yoga in the three diverse buildings around the complex. The architectural intervention was inspired by a root found in the sand of Athena’s north shore.

The spaces are functionally distributed to follow the sun path.

Looking for an unique experience between the interaction of the sunlight’s hues with architectural intervention. The light guides visitors to different spaces to perform yoga practices. The project encourages an individual transformation that looks for our inner light and unifies our mind, soul, and spirit.

Inspiration The approach to this project was treated differently from the other studio’s projects done before. The design process was inspired by Steven Holl’s watercolor perspective and his light research in Saint Ignatius Chapel. Most of the occupancy spaces were designed from the watercolor perspectives based on yoga principles and numerology.

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Interior Space The spatial organizations from the individual rooms were inspired by the local shell’s geometry proportion. The 12 rooms follow the rules of Golden Ratio applied to the plan design and the lights penetrations around the interior spaces. On the other hand, in Japanese culture, the organization of interior space is given by tatamis. The Japanese floor mats define the proportions of the Japanese houses’ interior space. Its use has been a cultural tradition that celebrates the importance of spaces. Bahkty’s interior spaces are designed based on Tatami’s mat organization. The design of each interior space represents the importance of its function within the program.

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Context

Also, Tatami’s layering inspired me to create a concept about producing local yoga mats from raw materials found on the site. In the last decade, Attsena Otttie Key has experienced deforestation from nature’s phenomenon. The tree’s rubber in combination with palm fiber is the materials for an ecofriendly product that could be used with the program’s purpose.

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Newnan Lake’s Bath Newnan Lake, Gainesville, Florida Professor JohnMarshal Maze Fall2019 Andreina Sojo and Valentina Valderrama Built for the individual. The project is a spiritual journey to the unknown. It integrates Gainesville’s vegetation as an essential element for the occupant’s experience. The project started from the environmental fragmentation, and it displays the decomposition of the matter and the site’s erosion. The construct consists of the flexibility, if the structure as the wind. It evocates the importance of reflecting Newnan’s main water mass and site qualities. As the program progresses, it forms a gathering space and it becomes a meditation space. The datum piece is a metaphor of self-consciousness and determination.

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The final component of the assemblies was the unification of the pieces and the way it could achieve a panoramic view. Certain portions of the architecture, such as the wall begins to take a structural function and the diffusion of light and shadows. Adding a conception of space and its variations.

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Section A

Concept

Cuzco’s Unwed Mothers Group House Cuzco, Peru Professor Claudio Noriega Spring 2019 The construct reflects the importance of the Incan Empire. The principal inspiration for the architectural intervention was the weaving techniques from traditional textile fabrication. The relationship between the assemblies creates sound waves classification over the building. It looks for a great experience for the mothers and their children. The common areas are located on the upper floor and the distribution focuses on reducing the noise when the occupants go to the private spaces. The composition celebrates the mystical legends of Peru’s cultures. It advocates the importance of their past civilization in the present generations.

Gathering space

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Cherokee Museum The Smoky Mountains, North Carolina Professor Claudio Noriega Spring 2019 The Great Smoky Mountains are our new attraction for the Cherokee Museum. The construct was inspired by the falling feather from Cherokee’s sacrifices. The construct looks to celebrate the Cherokee’s importance in history, and it honors the unforgettable “Trail of Tears”. The architectural intervention highlights the importance of family values and respect for traditions as the basic structure of society.

Elevation

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Details

Axo

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Maritime Museum and Welcome Center Las Olas, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Professor Thierry Kawczynski Fall 2018 Theobjective objectiveofof project to construct a maritime museThe thethe project waswas to construct a maritime museum which um which was the showcase of “La Niña”, the Spanish Galleon. was the showcase of “La Niña”, the Spanish Galleon. The overall shape The overall shape of the structure was created from a site analysis of the structure was created from a site analysis placed in Las Olas placed in Las OlasBoulevard, Florida. The surroundings guided inBoulevard, Florida. The surroundings influence the distribution of spaces fluenced the building’s distribution for the program. Two leading elwithin the program. Hierarchy guided the elements of the composition ements for the composition were hierarchy directed towards the to be directed to the site’s best view. The design is based on the lines site’s best view. The design is based on the lines obtained from the obtained from the site analysis and then the matrix development. They site analysis and then the matrix developent. They are the projection are the projection of the linear elements around the city. We had to of the linear elements around the city. We had to identify identify shapes in the matrix to obtain the cutting lines and then, to fold shapes in the matrix to obtain cuts and then, to fold them. The them. The building’s final volume is the projection of the folds. They are building’s final volume is the projection of the folds. part building’s skeleton.

Theyof theare part structural of the building’s structural skeleton.

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2-D Composition Project Professor Thierry Kawczynski Fall 2018 The aim of the architectural project was to create a matrix from painting and use it to guide the composition. The selection was “New York at Night” created by Max Weber in 1915. The process consisted of analyzing the selected painting; and finding organizational principles. They were given by the geometrical shapes from the art piece. The composition is the result of the interaction of vertical and horizontal grids. The different levels follow the lines dictated from the matrix in the horizontal plane.

The vertical grid extracts the painting’s details and recreates it with worked materials.

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Fourth Level

Details

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Shape into Form Professor John Thierry Kawczynski Summer 2018 The construct was inspired by The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, The intention was to the design a glass to cover the Pavilion’s Florida.

I abstracted glass from skin the museum to cover the structure.

Based on in theorder organization by rotation the rotation Pavilion’s structure, to creategiven a spiral with of thea spiral and including thea tetrahedrons it. createona each spiral rotation tetrahedrons.

It gives radiant solar in spectrum surface with It gives a radiant each level.the Thetetrahedrons. visitors are able to perceive thesolar hues spectrum with theironsense surface The visitors are able theexperience refractive s and level. transform its beauty into to a perceive remarkable dispersion with their senses and transform its beauty into a remarkable experience.

Lobby

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First Floor

Second Floor

Architectural Composition Principles

Balance

Cluster

Continuity

Transformation

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Third Floor

There is a certain dynamic with the use of materials that is unique.

The construct looks for the understanding of space, light, and texture. The building challenges the relationship between the occupant and the poetical site and creates a cave effect on the visitors. The cultural center encompasses both the formal and functional qualities of an art gallery.

Fourth Floor

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ANDREINA SOJO Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio 2017-2020