BenjaminPachecoRoblesPortfolio

BENJAMIN PACHECO ROBLES SELECTED WORKS

The Ohio State University I 2014 - 2016 Master of Architecture

The Ohio State University I 2009 - 2013 Bachelor of Science in Architecture

PROJECTS 01 MICRO-PORT Rethinking Downtown Living (p. 03)

02 CASA HERNANDEZ House for a friend (p. 16)

03 CASA OLVERA Rethinking the Mexican vernacular (p. 22)

04 CONTEMPORARY DESIGN CENTER Recycling ruins : a catalog of gallery fragments (p. 32)

05 DORSKY YUE INTERNATIONAL Architectural Technitian (p. 44)

06 EUROPE STUDY ABROAD Investigation of space, form, light and shadow (p. 50) 04

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01 Micro-Port called for a building which used the history of the Columbus Greyhound Station site to house residential, commercial, retail and parking. The proposal is for a hybrid building of a plinth in which the parking, retail and commercial programs are housed into a mega block that is split to create a pedestrian street in the middle while the retail and commercial hold the edge of the site to establish an edge condition. The pedestrian street resembles the back alley street vernacular of Columbus housing. An offset cluster courtyard typology gets introduced into this pedestrian alley as a way to create diversity within the site program and as a way to connect the program to the pocket park on the North side of the site. The microhousing units get a special treatment and are pushed above the mega block as a way to establish a new way of living, freeing the mega block from the micro housing typology, designed for the youth that comes into the Columbus area. This establishes a series of towers to participate with the rest of the city’s high rises.

Different units types are integrated within the towers to create distinction within the microunits. The typical micro unit gets a two story loft area facing the South for light. An introduction of flats and penthouse units creates variety at the top of the tower. The top most part of the tower is used for the coooling tower, integrated early in the design stages. The tower’s also incorportate a roof terrace for all of our inhabitants to enjoy different views of the city.

MICRO-PORT / Professors Bart Overly & Rob Livesey / 08.2014 / / Columbus, Ohio / C. Miggo, R. Hashtroodi /

Physical model photograph

Micro - Port

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ELEVATION SCALE: 1/32” = 1’-0”

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SECTION SCALE: 1/16” = 1’-0”

Micro - Port

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ELEVATION SCALE: 1/32” = 1’-0”

Section

Micro - Port

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Parking & ground floor plans ; Site plan

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Micro - Port

Commerical & micro-units floor plans

Micro - Port

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Night rendering

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Micro - Port

Physical model photographs

Micro - Port

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MIcro-unit, flat, and penthouse unit plans

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Micro - Port

Exploded micro-unit axonometric

Micro - Port

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Micro - Port

Benjamin Pacheco-Robles Rojin Hashtroodi Chris Miggo

Microism

111 E Town St.

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RCB ARCHITEC

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11/24/2014

DRAWING TITLE:

WALL SECTIO

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MICRO UNIT FACADE SCALE: 1/” = 1’-0”

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MICRO UNIT WALL SECTION SCALE: 1” = 1’-0”

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RETAL ANDCOMMERCIAL WALL SECTION SCALE: 1/” = 1’-0”

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RETAIL AND COMMERCIAL FACADE SCALE: 1” = 1’-0”

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Micro - Port

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Physical model photographs & rooftop rendering

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Micro - Port

Physical model photograph

Micro - Port

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02 This single story house was designed for a family of four. Having the opportunity to design a house for one of my childhood friends was the first attempt at bringing new architecture to the region I grew up. In this commission, an attempt was made to relate to the site as much as possbile by creating views, using vernacular materials, as well as using a formal system of organizaion that helped derive the form of the house. A system of golden rectangle proportions define the geometry of the house. making every space proportional to each other, and thus creating a harmony within plan. A rotation operation is made to shift the living space to better the relationship between the house and the landscape. A dialogue is established with the rotated cross plan of the living room with the plan of the town church. The sloping site allowed for the house to accomodate views towards important buildings like the town’s churches, as well as, views to the surrounding mountains. The aim of the house is to create a deep relationship with the landscape and the life of the family with its surroundings.

In an attempt reduce costs, the house uses traditional construction methods along with local brick and stone. Not only does this help reduce embodied energy, but it helps the environment.

Along with using traditional materials, passive solar ideas were established by having more windows on the south facade paired with an overhang to avoid overhHernandez House calls for three bedrooms, one and a half bathrooms, a kitchen, a dinning room, a living room, and a garage.

CASA HERNANDEZ / Personal project / House for a friend / 12.2012 - present / / Guanajuato, Mexico / Under Construction /

Under-construction photograph

Casa Hernandez

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Proportional relationships

Site Plan

Floor Plan ; relationship to context

Diagrams, site plan, & floor plan

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Casa Hernandez

South Elevation

North Elevation

East Elevation

West Elevation

Elevations & sectional perspective

Casa Hernandez

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Construction photographs

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Casa Hernandez

Construction photographs

Casa Hernandez

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03 Olvera House calls for a program for a family of three. The clients requested three bedroms, a kitchen, a dinning room, a living room and one full bathroom along with the request for private courtyard space. The proposal is to accommodate the program of the house towards the North side of the site in order to create a courtyard facing South with direct access to the living room. The challenge of the site was its triangular composition in a corner site where the road bends. The solution was to create a higher volume of the house that would not only work to reference the medieval idea of the tower as one emerges from a bent road as well as a reference to the vernacular pyramids of the Mexican vernacular. The mass of the house also works witha chimney that serves two functions: in the winter it serves the living space and dinning room while in the summer it works as a heat chimney to remove the hot air of the house out to keep the house cool. The fenestration of the house is designed to create cross ventilation to help cool the house. A three meter wall is put in place around the site boundary to create the private courtyard requested. Various physical and digital models are used to examine light and shadow as well as material studies using vernacular materials to seea variety of appearances to show to the client.

CASA OLVERA / Personal project / House for my cousin / 05.2013 - present / / Guanajuato, Mexico / Design Development /

South-east elevation redering

Casa Olvera

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Physical bristol models to study light & shade

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Casa Olvera

Digital models to study light & shade

Casa Olvera

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Floor plan & roof plan

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Casa Olvera

Site plan & final scheme digital model views

Casa Olvera

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Transverse and longitudinal sections

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Casa Olvera

Angulo del Angulo del sol del invierno sol del verano

Thermodynamic diagrams

Casa Olvera

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Material explorations

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Casa Olvera

Material explorations

Casa Olvera

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04 The project aim is to bring together the socio-cultural lfe of artists that exist on the streets of Rome to a new form of architecture that is flexible with gallery spaces for street art. The project is based on the idea of vast public space that circulates through the building and the site while at the same time integrating a private residence component for the artists. The semi-public space in between becomes the gallery space that can be semi-private and at times can be opened to the public. The project is also an extension of the urban garden around the site creating both a ground courtyard and a roof scape open to the public.

The project is as an exploration regarding the revival of the forgotten gallery addition designed by Luigi Cosenza to the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna. The project in its current condition has closed due to various urbanistic problems, one of them being its connection to the over all site, as well as ,its presence that hides behind the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna. The focus of the project is to recycle the ruin in its current state in order to revive not only the museum addition but to revive the area itself.

The project dealt with making a connection to the urban condition that Rome presents in its greatest form. It also dealt with social conditions of activating the site through its program accomodations of artist studios in recycling the ruin.

CONTEMPORARY DESIGN CENTER / Professors Kay Bea Jones & Beatrice Bruscolli / 04.2012 / / Rome Study Abroad / Menching Chen /

Hand -drawn watercolor perspective

Contemporary Design Center

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Existing condition Existing condition

New strategy

Solids subtracted Existing condition

Proposed strategy

Sectional Strategy

Site & program diagrams

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Contemporary Design Center

Solids re-configured

Solid / Void Strategy

Kit of Parts Exploded Axonometric

Exploded axonometric

Contemporary Design Center

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Hand - drawn watercolor rendering & section perspective

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Contemporary Design Center

Model photographs & section perspective

Contemporary Design Center

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/ October 2013 - May 2014 / Architectural Technitian /

Dorsky Yue International LC

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DORSKY YUE INTERNATIONAL

COLUMBIA PERS

Tanger Outlets, Michican, rendering

Dorsky Yue International

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DREAMLAND MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT Dorksy Yue International Architecture Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan

Dreamland Mall, Azerbajian

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Dorsky Yue International

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Dreamland Mall, Azerbajian

Dorsky Yue International

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EASTON GATEWAY DISTRICT Dorksy Yue International Architecture Columbus, Ohio

Easton Station, 3D model and rendering

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Dorsky Yue International

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Easton Station wall sections

Dorsky Yue International

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06 This sketches were developed during my study abroad experiences in Europe. Capturing qualities in the architecture such as public space, light qualities, shadows, form, and the site is part of this endeavour. Plazzas, in particular became an interesting investigation due to its program surrounding the piazza, in which most cases it was either a government entity or a religious entity. Regarless, they were full of life throughout the day and even during the night. Contextual information is crutial to any piece of architecture or public space. In my sketches, this becomes coptured again and again.

Capturing detail is crutial to understand drawings or sketches. In one end one can create very detail pieces like the detail in my still life even though its a small piece to bare strip down detail that captures just the essence of the building or a quality of the building such as light conditions or form.

Sketching has always been a passion that I have been able to carry out throughout my education.

It helps me see things that a picture would not help me capture and at the same time it becomes a tool to analyze a building in or a space in depth.

STUDY ABROAD / Professors Kay Bea Jones & Jaqueline Gargus / 04.2012 & 06.2013 / / Rome Study Abroad / Europe Maymester Trip /

On-site hand watercolor perspective, Ronchamp

Study Abroad Sketches

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Trajan’s Market, Rome, Italy, on-site hand sketch

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Study Abroad Sketches

Renzo piano, Genova & Duomo of Orvietto, Italy, on-site hand sketches

Study Abroad Sketches

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Piazza dell Popolo, Ascoli piceno, Italy, On-site hand watercolor

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Study Abroad Sketches

Duomo, Ascoli Piceno, Italy, On-site hand watercolor

Study Abroad Sketches

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Villa Foscari, Mira Venezia, Italy, On-site sketch

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Study Abroad Sketches

Villa Cornaro, Piambino Dese, Italy, On-site sketch

Study Abroad Sketches

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Matera & Florence, Italy, on-site conte and watercolor

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Study Abroad Sketches

Basilica of Maxentius & Fontana della Tartarughe, on-site hand watercolors

Study Abroad Sketches

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San Francesco Chiostro, Ascoli Piceno, Italy, On-site hand watercolor

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Study Abroad Sketches

Cattedrale di San Nicola Pellegrino, Trani, Italy, On-site hand watercolor

Study Abroad Sketches

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Still life on watercolor paper, Rome, Italy, hand-sketch

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Study Abroad Sketches

Bernini’s St. Teresa in Ecstasy, Rome, Italy, on-site hand sketch

Study Abroad Sketches

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