FATHER & SON GALLERY

This project speaks on the idea of the L typology and its behavior as a figural joint as it interacts with the facade. The suburban facade masks the complexity of the interior spaces made up of L joints. Throughout my project the L type acts both as a figural joint and as an object. When creating these typologies, I broke up my original sectional study into forms that resembled an L-like form. I also developed new typologies from the poche of the floor plan of the Abbey House by Edwin Lutyens. The typology innately activates both plan and section. I pushed this idea further by fluctuating the scale when joining the L’s on the interior and exterior.

The facade tempts the subject to further experience the space by only revealing moments of its interior. The L’s on the interior construct dynamic spaces while the L’s on the exterior are used as ornament that relates the gallery back to the surrounding buildings on site. The figural joints in section are about creating a sequence of spaces that flow into each other. The aesthetic of the gallery as a whole relates back to its site by having an exterior that speaks the same language of architecture as its surroundings. The pitched roof and suburban facade interlaced with the figural L’s speak to the precedent of the Menil Campus. The materiality of the facade also relates back to the materials seen in a suburban home with the shingles on the roof and siding. This architectural object seeks to diguise its interior complexity with a suburban front that caps the growth of the interior massing of L’s.

TRANSPORTATION HUB

SEMESTER: SPRING 2019

INDIVIDUAL PROJECT

PROFESSOR: GABRIEL ESQUIVEL & JORIS PUTENEERS

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

The Non-Place is the fuzzy place on the edge of our perception, that is either too difficult to access or nearly completely withdrawn from us. The smoothness of these Heterotopic Non-Places like the ocean or the desert is mediated by a place of smoothing, a Liminal Place. Liminal places are in a state of becoming, between place and non-place, the past and the future. Representation, through a Hermeneutic lense, is the liminal place of interpretation, A place where the thought of the artist is interpreted or pathed onto the thought of the viewer. Liminal space forms an eddy in the stream of consciousness or experience, forming Places that are experienced for both no time at all and an eternity: Elevators, Lobbies, Hallways, Terminals, Subways, Gangways. These places are defined in anthropology as transformative places of waiting, unknowing, and thought, mediating through preemption to ritual the smooth unknown and the striated known. These can be human rituals such as TSA screenings, waiting for the subway, the dance of flight attendants, or digital rituals such as iteration, recursion and smoothing. Liminal Places are in the act of smoothing Place and Non-Place.

RESPONSIBLE FOR: DRAWINGS + HARD SURFACE MODELING

MUSEUM HISTORICAL PRESERVATION

SEMESTER: FALL 2019

TEAM: BARBARA PORTILLO

PROFESSOR: MIGUEL ROLDAN & ZANA BOSNIC BARCELONA ARCHITECTURE CENTER