Andres Jimenez Selected Works

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UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURE WORK SAMPLES

DYNAMIC POROSITY

5th Year

Thesis A dynamic porosity allows a space between two other spaces to overlap both visually and physically with other interstices. The two end spaces include the user at one end and the extent of view or access on the other.

For example, in a courtyard a user on ground level looking at the sky will look through the same space between a user on a third floor looking across to their neighbor. The use of specially designed elements can tailor both visual and physical access independently and simultaneously.

Scale: 1’-0”=1/4”

Program Low income and small scale living housing modules serve as components to form the spaces between.

Scale: 1’-0”=1/4”

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INTERMODAL HUB

Chicago, IL Partner Project

4th Year

Design Challenge Create a hyperlocal, yet regionally connected mixed-use market and micro-unit residences. Connect the programs to the adjacent transit center for bus, subway, and train to create a catalyst for the Jefferson Park neighborhood.

Design Concept The project approaches the site and programtic requirements from both architectural and urban planning points. In a neighborhood with several vacancies, the project takes the original site expands it into vacant buildings that present opportunity for greater integration of a mixed use market and residential units with existing nodes of interest.

Scale: 1/32” = 1’ 120’

56’

24’

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Scale: 1/32” = 1’ 120’

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EUROPE TRAVEL

Western Europe

4th Year

Experience Over the course of three months, we traveled and researched European architecture, history, city planning, culture, and construction in over 50 cities in nine countries throughout Western Europe. Projects visited encompassed a complete range of history and scales.

Focus I focused specifically on analyzing natural lighting as a strategy in architecture, the technology that permits it, and the effect it has on spaces.

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LIGHT FROM ABOVE Blacksburg, VA

3rd Year skylight slope 1/4” per foot

sedum plants growing medium drainage layer waterproof membrane insulation metal roof deck + poured concrete steel structure

bronze panel coarse sand rock mulch

Design Challenge Design a church, along with spaces for supplemental religious functions, to replace the current Luther Memorial Lutheran Church.

1/4”=1’0”

live roof site poured concrete metal deck

Design Concept A church should be an emotionally-provoking comfortable and inspiring space to host both individual reflection and community worship. This space is created through comfortably modest sized spaces which are only extended through a connection between sanctuary and sky, and its religious significance. Through this decision the building can be grounded and set within the terrain, thus becoming one with the earth.

extruded polystyrene insulation

concrete roof metal roof deck

perforated metal ceiling panels

1/2” dia. steel cables W section steel beam

cruciform steel columns @ 20’ oc reinforced site cast concrete wall

backfill extruded polystyrene filter fabric waterproof membrane perforated drain pipe coarse gravel concrete slab vabor barrier gravel

classroom

assistant pastor office classroom

pastor office large group gathering space/ library

classroom

closet

storage

mechanical [+geothermal heat system]

reception space

choir

living room W

M organ pipes

library sacristy

M

fellowship hall

mechanical [+water catchment system]

W

cistern 5000 gal

cistern 5000 gal

kitchen

1/16”=1’0”

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storage

prayer/ meditation

horizontal geothermal loop

OLYMPIC PLAZA

Amsterdam

2nd Year

Design Challenge Design and define the Olympic Cultural Plaza at the heart of the Amsterdam 2028 Olympic Park to serve as a lively interaction point for the public, both during and after the Games.

BRIDGE TO NORTH DISTRICT RESTAURANT AND OLYMPIC EXHIBITION/ CULTURAL CENTER

TRAM STOP

AMSTERDAM HISTORICAL MUSEUM

Design Concept The event of the Olympics is temporary, but through creating programmatic architecture, the site can become an opportunity for a space that is suitable for such a large event and for an expanding dynamic city.

ACCESSABLE GREEN ROOF SKYWALK HEALTH FACILITY

HOTEL AND APARTMENTS OFFICES

OLYMPIC OFFICES (EXISTING)

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AMPHITHEATER

MALL

BRIGHT FUTURES Blacksburg, VA 3rd Place CEFPI Competition Winner

3rd Year

Design Challenge Design a new 94,000 square foot STEM elementary school for 800 students in Blacksburg, VA. The building should influence healthy leadership, healthy eating, healthy body, and healthy mind. Learning spaces should include formal and informal, and collobarative spaces.

PICK UP/DROP OFF AND PARKING BUS LOOP

ENTRANCE AND ADMINISTRATION LARGER LEARNING AREAS

Design Concept -music and art -cafeteria and gym natural sunlight Use daylighting by predicting, controlling, and dispersing through ceiling and wall conditions. Daylighting, as opposed to artificial lighting, creates positive effects in student and teacher health, morale, and memory retention which in turn cause for a more effective education.

Entrance

Cafeteria

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Classroom

Hallway

Atrium

CLASSROOM/COLLABORATION OUTDOOR SPACE - gym and cafeteria extension - open sport fields

FUNCTION PLAN SCALE 1/24”=1’-0”

DISASTER RELIEF New Orleans, LA

2nd Year

original SIP shelter

designed screens

Design Concept A temporary structure used for disaster relief can evolve into a comfortable, sustaibable, and permanent dwelling.

Disaster

Clean Up

Families Areas cleaned displaced to for temporary temporary shelters on shelters home sites

Resettlement

Temporary shelters expanded or replaced to permanent dwellings

SCALE 1’-0” = 1/4”

FLOOR PLAN

diffused light

incident light

REF.

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W/D

Screen apertures orient away from the sun to shield from direct radiant heat and to diffuse intense outdoor light indoors.

RESEARCH FACILITY Pulaski, VA 2nd Place Competition Winner Recipient of RCI Scholarship

2nd Year

Design Challenge Design a facility to host both expiremental and educational functions pertaining to buildng enclosures. The participants of these activities will range from groups of students and educators; owners and builders; and architects and consultants.

Design Concept There are tendancies of building in an historic town to try to immitate the existing architecture and in turn create a false history. The design for this project strives to make an honest connection to the history of the town while also giving it a prospect for the future. The town boomed in the late 1800s from metal manufacturing and farming. As a research and educational facility for metal, useful modern technologies can be complimentary and adventagious to the growth and legacy of the town.

cant strip

CLASSROOM

CONFERENCE

Daylighting The roof monitor and window louvers are designed to accept sun in the winter and take advantage of the light without heat gain during summer.

gravel waterproof membrane rigid insulation 6” concrete slab 3/4” metal roof decking

aluminum panels bolt fastening system perforated metal ceiling tile

silicon seam

double pane glazing

6” concrete slab 3/4” metal roof decking

anodized aluminum cladding with 1” spacing

perforated metal ceiling tile

waterproof membrane

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DensGlass Gold sheathing

gympsum

LAB

rigid insulation

CLASSROOM

poured reinforced concrete wall

concrete column beyond

window frame

6” concrete slab 2” rigid insulation

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NORTH WALL ELEVATION

HOMO-HUMUS-HUMANITAS Blacksburg, VA Partner Project

3rd Year

Design Challenge The bathroom is often the most neglected space in architecture. We were tasked to design a rest stop for pedestrians walking along the Duck Pond on the Virginia Tech campus.

Design Concept The building is designed to be interconnected between every layer.

It is common to think of privacy as a cut-off, but the bathroom has spacial connectedness while maintaining visual privacy.

HEART

CAMBIUM

BARK

BRANCH

Sustainability The building is built into the hillside to make use of geothermal heating, makes use of angled roof for optimal angle placement of photovoltaic panels, and collects site water in a cistern to use in the toilets.

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