ANTONIA PACHECO
ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO
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Texas Tech HCoA - El Paso
VIENTO OESTE TOWER
SYMBIOTIC SPACES:
SYMBIOTIC SPACES: RESEARCH LABORATORIES + COOLING CENTER
ANDALUCÍA HIGH DENSITY HOUSING
INTERSITIAL SPACES + LIBRARY & LEARNING HUBS
FOUR WALL HOUSE
SYMBIOTIC SPACES:
CAMDEN ICA
SYMBIOTIC SPACES: FLEXIBLE ROOM[S] THROUGH ROTATING WALLS
COMMUNITY CENTER + FINE ART GALLERIES
Princeton University SoA
COURSE: ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN VI
YEAR: SPRING 2023
FACULTY: STEPHEN MUELLER
INSTITUTION: TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
AWARDS & RECOGNITION: SHOWCASED IN TTU HCOA CROP X: YIELD, SHOWCASED IN TTU SPRING 2023 END OF YEAR EXHIBIT
The project centers on the Viento Oeste Research Institute, The project centers on the Viento Oeste Research Institute, dedicated to transnational dust flow study. Its dynamic skin dedicated to transnational dust flow Its skin channels wind and dust, fostering learning and research on channels wind and dust, and research on dust-related respirator y ailments in the Chihuahuan Deser t. dust-related respiratory ailments in the Chihuahuan Desert. Additionally, this skin facilitates the conversion of the ground this skin facilitates the conversion of the floor into a cooling center, catering to the extensive summer floor into a cooling center, catering to the extensive summer foot traffic in El Paso, Texas. foot traffic in El Paso, Texas.
Comprehensive exploration of Chihuahuan Desert winds in El Paso driving innovative dynamic facade.
CHIHUAHUAN DESERT DUSTSCAPES
El Pasoans’ resilience amid allergen-prone Chihuahuan environments
FACADE & WIND INITIAL EXPLORATIONS
Massing wind tunnel analysis using Butterfly and Grasshopper
Skin assembly tested in CFD windtunnel
SELECTED SITE & WIND
The strategically selected site is hit by the fastest wind of the region
Finalized skin module design responding to wind conditions and program
Final module design & aperture variations
Module 1
Aperture: 3%
Program: Laboratory, research gallery, and office.
Module 2
Aperture: 15%
Program: Laboratory, research gallery, and office.
Module 3
Aperture: 34%
Program: Laboratory, research gallery, and office.
Module 4
Aperture: 65%
Program: Laboratory, research gallery, and office.
Module 5
Aperture: 100%
Program: Lobby, archive & office.
Skin modules assembled.
Comprehensive architectural diagram showcasing facade panels and wind pressure distribution.
Skin wind pressure diagram.
Section cut exhibits wind-funneling façade, enabling precision dust analysis.
Airflow through controlled aperture
High pressure wind through skin module
An architectural symbiosis: façade channels air, nurturing a desert refuge.
Cooling center: public interactions
Ground floor plan: cooling center
Integrated lab realms, purified environments, experimental outdoors, dynamic façade filtration.
Dynamic wet labs for wind analysis.
OUTER EXPERIMENTATION SPACE
Experimental space harnesses wind dynamics.
PROJECT TYPE: ACADEMIC
COURSE: ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN VII
YEAR: FALL 2023
FACULTY: MARIANNA GONZALEZ-CERVANTES
INSTITUTION: TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
The high-densit y family housing tower redefines spatial The high-density family housing tower redefines spatial boundaries through a ventilated enclosure. Ventilated halls boundaries a ventilated enclosure. Ventilated halls connect via a central ar ter y, challenging notions of privacy connect via a central artery, notions of privacy and proper t y. Four communal libraries per floor encourage and property. Four communal libraries per floor encourage interactions, diverging from traditional Western ideals. The interactions, from traditional Western ideals. The tower ’ s podium integrates learning spaces and computer tower’s integrates spaces and computer labs accessible to both residents and the communit y, fur ther labs accessible to both residents and the community, further challenging established spatial concepts. established concepts.
1988-1990: Years of Terror
1988
January 13th - Bomb car
Monaco, where Escobar’s family lived. This event started the Cartel War.
January 18th - Mayor candidate, Andres Pastrana arango is kidnapped by the Medellin Cartel.
January 25th - Attorney General Carlos Mauro Hoyos is kidnapped and assassinated by the Medellin Cartel.
March 10th - Bomb car
of newspaper El Colombiano.
August 2nd - Brothers Munoz Mosquera are rescued from Penitenciaria Bellavista by the Medellin Cartel. Two guards are killed.
August 19th - 3 hitmen of the Cartel de Cali are killed by Escobar’s hitmen in Escobar’s barrio El Poblado.
November 11th - 43 people killed by the Medellin Cartel.
Crime timeline reveals Escobar’s impact. Muder statistics in 1988 and 1990 demonstrate the danger to the public.
1990 January 17th - March 30thFirst truce between the Medellin Cartel & Colombian government.
March 30th - 2,000 hitmen prepare themselves for a new wave of terrorists attacks.
April 26th - Carlos Pizarro Leongomez is assassinated.
May 21st - Hitmen assassinate senator Federico estrada Velez.
June - 150 homicide victims. 20 masacres. Death squads swept through all the barrios, taking young men and women and killing them.
June 28th - Bomb car leaves 14 dead and 30 injured in front of police station.
July 9th - Special forces attempt Pablo escobar’s capture but fail.
August 30th - Journalists
Juan Vitta, Hero Buss, Richard Becerra, Azucena Lievano, Diana Turbay, and Orlando Acevedo are kinapped.
Semtember 25th - Hacienda Los Cocos Masacre. 19 dead. Masacre was a direct order from Escobar.
December 31st - 5,434 people dead due to homicide in Medellin. End-of-year statistics.
Excerpts of timeline depict Escobar’s reign of terror.
GROUP PROJECT: MEDELLIN URBAN & HISTORICAL ANALYSIS MAP
GROUP MEMBERS: Antonia Pacheco, Marissa Aguayo.
CONTRIBUTION: Urban & historical timeline, recollection of the Medellin cartel’s assasinations and crimes. Tables and data collection. Urban intervention image editing.
SEMESTER: Fall 2023. FACULTY: Marianna GonzalezCervantes.
Urban interventions & sketches evolve into detailed, impactful design.
Sky streets mend urban fabric, ensuring safer circulation.
SOFT BOUNDARY:
VENTILATED VEIN
Versatile soft boundary creates flexible, interstitial spilling spaces that immitate a street within the unit.
Parks foster safety, enriching neighborhood security and community cohesion.
Each unit fronts a communal social artery, facilitating interaction and connectivity.
When mutually consented, the communal space extends into units’ interiors.
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Strategic neighborhood libraries advance education, yet community faces closure challenges.
VERTICAL LIBRARY REDISTRIBUTION
Book collection spreads to floor libraries due to local
closure.
LIBRARY AT HOME
Accessible floor libraries for residents and community, extending along socializing artery.
Interconnected libraries via ventilated arteries, accessible to residents and community alike.
GROUND FLOORPLAN: PUBLIC LIBRARY & LEARNING HUB
1. Tiny Library
2. Computer Lab
3. Learning Space PROGRAM
COMPUTER LAB + VENTILATED ARTERY
Computer hub flanked by dual ventilated arteries enhancing spatial connectivity.
SMALL LIBRARY + VENTILATED ARTERY
PUBLIC INTERACTIONS
MAIN ENTRANCE LEARNING SPACES + VENTILATED ARTERY
Adaptable learning environment: serves schools by day, workshops energize evenings. 2 3
Ventilated arteries foster movement through different spaces.
Engaging promenade, catalyzing community interaction for tower residents and locals.
Accessible tower lobby, a communal hub merging resident and community realms.
A symbiosis created by the assemblage of eight linear units interconnected by ventilated corridors, accentuated by centrally positioned clusters housing four intimate libraries.
TYPICAL HABITATIONAL UNIT FLOORPLAN
Eight units linked by ventilated arteries, centered with four libraries.
VENTILATED ARTERIES + UNIT: LOOPED INTERACTIONS
Two units, through adaptable glass doors and internal circulation, merge seamlessly.
SCALE 1/4”=1’-0”
VENTILATED ARTERIES HABITATED LIBRARY AT HOME + PUBLIC INTERACTIONS
Ventilated arteries link spaces, fostering fluidity in unit connectivity.
Four small libraries synergize seamlessly with the housing units.
SCALE 1/4”=1’-0”
Vertical living unity: interconnected apartments via ventilated arteries, innovative circulation
UNIT HABITATED
Dynamic glass doors: unit opens to aerial street, user-controlled connectivity.
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TINY LIBRARY + VENTILATED ARTERY
Ventilated arteries foster inter-space communication and connection.
TERM: FALL 2024
PROJECT TYPE: ACADEMIC (INDIVIDUAL)
COURSE: ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 501, CORE I
FACULTY: MÓNICA PONCE DE LEÓN
INSTITUTION: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
This ADU project challenges Princeton’s three -room ordinance
This ADU project Princeton’s three-room ordinance by accommodating extended Latino immigrant families, extended Latino immigrant families, which of ten include multiple generations. Featuring rotating which often include generations. Featuring rotating storage walls and Murphy beds, the design of fers flexible, storage walls and beds, the design offers flexible, multifunctional spaces, allowing residents to adapt to their multifunctional spaces, residents to to their unique living needs while def ying the traditional concept of the unique needs while defying the traditional concept of the American nuclear family. American nuclear
Four partition walls that when deployed create four rooms. When not in use, the four conceal into a large partition wall. The use of these strategies allow for a flexible space while abiding by Princeton’s zoning rules for ADU’s
The initial arrangement of the four walls indicate a flexible space with murphy beds embedded in the single “wall”, giving the idea of an open plan ADU that abides by Princeton’s zoning rules for ADU’s
When the four partitions are concealed into one, the flexible space is able to foster large gatherings, or host living dynamics that do not abide by the American nuclear family ideals
The four partitions are deployed, creating four flexible rooms that can serve as bedrooms or other spaces. Additional doors embedded into the partition wall provide privacy for each space
The flexibility of the four partitions allow for different living conditions. While fostering large groups, the ADU is able to host smaller groups of occupants and providing the possibility for other spaces
The four partition walls are not dependent on each other to create spaces that accomodate from the largest gathering to two inhabitants
A sectional cut through the rooms created when the four partition walls are deployed
A transversal look into the spaces created by the partition walls when fully deployed
The flexible dynamic the four partitions provide allow for uncommon gatherings to occur in the home
TERM: FALL 2024
PROJECT TYPE: ACADEMIC (INDIVIDUAL)
COURSE: ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 501, CORE I
FACULTY: ANDA FRENCH
INSTITUTION: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
This communit y center fosters the constant interaction bet ween This community center fosters the constant interaction between the Camden communit y, the ar tist communit y of New Jersey, the Camden community, the artist community of New Jersey, and the youth. Following an inter t wining cur ve in plan and and the an intertwining curve in and section, the Camden ICA allows for three spaces to cohabit the section, the Camden ICA allows for three spaces to cohabit the space gracefully space
A curve reflecting the intertwining of all stakeholders ins developed and employed for building design in both plan and section.
Ground floor that allows for three different branches to interact seamlessly.
The first branch of the community center hosts the Camden community through a bookstore, a cafe, and an amphitheater
The second branch of the community center provides creation spaces for the youth in Camden. Including pottery making, painting and fabric manipulation.
The third branch of the community center hosts various fine art galleries.
Camden tree photograhs altered and pixelated resulting in facade design.
