Architecture Portfolio 2019-2022

Architecture

PP Oo Rr Tt Ff Oo Ll Ii Oo Rebekah Mireles Selected Works 2019-2022

Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s

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Resume

Strange Fruit

Alabama Group: Nastassia Chua, Sharron Lott & Rebekah Mireles 2021 AIAA Concept Design Award Winner

The Link

Galveston Mixed Use: Shopping, Restaurant & Theater Fall 2019

Planet Kidz STEM Labs Katy Education Center Spring 2021

Houston Exploration Center Houston Mixed Use: Library, Cafe & Yoga Studio Spring 2020

New Jamaica Beach Jamaica Beach Master Plan: Post 10’+ Sea Level Rise Fall 2021

Phone: 281-748-4236 E-Mail: rebekahmireles@gmail.com

Rebekah D. Mireles

Objective: Secure a position at a firm while pursuing a Master Degree.

Experience As Built and Submittals Coordinator – Purcell Construction Inc

November 2017-Present

Responsibilities: As builts: making changes to AutoCAD files and curating a final project with disc copies and hard copies. Submittals: verifying the manufacturer and correct parts/materials are being used in the field.

Cargo Agent - SMCargo

March 2016-2018

Responsibilities: Assure all freight has correct documents. Making sure all freight is loaded into appropriate unit load devices and the correct amount of positions are staged for a specific flight. Answering phone calls from airline service centers.

Drafting Intern – PLC Construction Inc.

November 2015 - February 2016

Responsibilities: Assisted project managers and engineers editing plans for all jobs. Test electrical panel on job sites.

Education Bachelor of Architecture The Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design University of Houston, Texas

May 2022

Associate Of Science Degree

Lone Star College System at Kingwood, Texas.

May 2017

Drafting Certificate – Intro, Intermediate & Advanced AutoCad Lone Star College System at Kingwood, Texas.

High School Diploma Atascocita High School at Humble, Texas.

December 2016

June 2014

Skills

Technology Skills Proficient user of Microsoft Office, AutoCad, Revit, Sketchup, Adobe Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop Personal Skills Excellent communication skills, extensive customer service experience, strong attention to detail, team player and able to multi-task. Performs well under pressure, reliable and a quick learner.

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Strange Fruit

Fall 2020 - 2021 AIA Concept Design Award Winner

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Inserted beneath the Memorial’s courtyard, a proposed semi-submerged intervention completes the mission of the existing memorial with a 12,000 sq. ft. Peace and Justice Center for Dialogue which provides a place/space for the difficult conversations on race that must happen to create a more equitable judicial system. The Center accommodates the memorial’s current off-site exhibition space with the addition of classrooms for student groups and an auditorium for meaningful dialogue on race and social justice. Located in Energy Zone 2, the project provides an opportunity to model sustainability for under-resourced African-American communities which are more susceptible to the effects of climate change.

As a symbol of life and hope offered through dialogue, the green roof of the semi-buried Center contrasts with the hanging sarcophagi that stand in for the bodies of the lynched along the periphery of the Memorial. Inspired by the art of Torkwase Dyson, who explores the relationship between space and Black bodies, the intervention uses the relationship between the visitor’s body and space to convey a sense of the burden of Black life in America. Carved out of the earth, the space of the Center echoes spaces African-Americans have had to carve out the American landscape for self-liberation. Supported by a space frame, the curving green roof is inflected downward with the invisible weight of the dead, but lifted three feet above the ground to reveal the literal weight of oppression as one descends into the earth below. A processional path to the Center between the new intervention and the concrete walls of the courtyard extends the ramped procession of the existing Memorial and recreates the experience of a people pushed along the margins of society. As one enters the Center, a dropped ceiling over the lobby creates a compressed feeling before the section increases as one descends into the space. By bringing to the forefront this theme of moving along the margins through the project’s entry sequence and inscribing the educational center with the circulation path, the design reconciles the bitter reality of what the memorial represents with the sanctity that carved out spaces historically represent to Black Americans.

Once the path moves into the interior of the building it is programmed as an exhibition space that leads the visitor down to the auditorium.

While offering a space that is hopeful, the design conveys the heaviness of the burden that the entire American people need to help carry throughout the design.

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The Link Fall 2019

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First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

South Elevation

North Elevation

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P l a n e t K i d z ST E M L a b s Spring 2021

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South Elevation

North Elevation

East Elevation

West Elevation

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Houston Exploration Center Spring 2020

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LOBBY

URBAN ROOM

CAFE

SITE PLAN

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West Elevation

East Elevation

South Elevation

North Elevation

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FIRST FLOOR PLAN SCALE: 1/20" = 1' -0"

UP

BREAK ROOM

OPEN TO BELOW

LOBBY

URBAN ROOM

STOR.

MECH.

CAFE

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

DOWN

ADULT COLLECTION

UP

OPEN TO BELOW KIDS COLLECTION

LECTURE ROOM

CLASSROOM

CLASSROOM

NON PRINT AND PERIODICALS

COMPUTERS

Third Floor Plan

Fourth Floor Plan

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New Jamaica Beach Fall 2021

At the current rate of sea-level rise, it is predicted that most of Jamaica Beach will be submerged in 75 years. In response, this new precedent will be constructed off the north end of the island’s bayside, far enough removed from the existing island that construction in the intermediary is not an eyesore, but close enough to still be Jamaica Beach. Being built in the bay, as sea-level rises, the existing but submerged island will ultimately act as an offshore sandbar and barrier that dissipates the future impact of ocean waves, creating a more placid setting for the new Jamaica Beach.

Jamaica Beach remains an island community with beach and bayfront homes. The difference being that the new Jamaica Beach is comprised of a connected grid of smaller islands separated by canals that maximize beach and bayfront homes.

With road access lost to the ocean, the city is now predominately pedestrian and accessed by boat. Current government regulations along the coast stipulate that once the ocean overtakes the land beneath a dwelling, the homeowner loses rights to this property.

The new Jamaica Beach preserves homeowner rights, by providing 40x40 lots upon which homeowners can build.

Although the new above-grade height of the island allows for homes shed their stilts, because the city is fully pedestrian, and with density increased on a zero-lot line grid, homes remain on their icon oceanfront stilts but now this raised area acts as a community easement where residents can freely walk throughout the community.

Density within the community is doubled since there no longer exists any need for roadways.

The grid for houses is only intersected in each of the main street commercial corridors that leads to a lagoon-style beach located at the bullseye center of Jamaica Beach. In a community that centers around the beach, what could be more fitting than having a beach at the city core?

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Construction Phase

Sea Level Rise

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New Jamaica Beach

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