Architectural Portfolio BA

Brandon Ableman B.S. Architecture Architecture Portfolio Selected Works - Spring 2023

This portfolio is a showcase of my best academic work that I have completed throughout my years in university. The following works selected and displayed are what I believe represent myself through my work in architecture. Creating memories through experience is a core idea behind my design concepts. By utilizing different sensory connections I hope to allow my creations to be viewed in the true potential I aspire them to be. I personally believe that utilizing past design aspects and working them into a more efficient manner is the future of architecture, in which I hope to be apart of.

Skills:

Revit, Rhino 3D, AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Enscape, VRay, Lumion, Word, Excel

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El Paso Observatory

Brandon Ableman

Spring 2021

University of Texas at Arlington

Project Location: Scenic Drive, El Paso, Tx Instructor: Liliana Morales

The project takes place on the mountainside road of Scenic Drive in El Paso, Texas. The concept is a design for an obseravatory that would not disturb the terrain and site that it sits on. The main idea was to create three different programs that would face different sides of the El Paso cityline and contribute to the overall program.

The buildings were designed and placed atop pilotis and connected by continuous ramps that follow the curviture and shape of the mountainside while being a non-invasive element of the design. To provide unbridled experiences of the surrounding landscape while allowing for an experiential route through the aforementioned and designed buildings.

Required Program: Entryway, Restaurant, Gallery/Observatory.

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SITE PLAN

FLOOR PLAN

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ENTARNCE

2: CREATE BASIC 2D FORMS

1: IDENTIFY SITE MEASUREMENTS (~10,000 sq ft)

ENTRANCE CAFE OBSERVATORY

3: USE FORMS TO CREATE OBSERVATORY/ CAFE, ENTARNCE VOLUMES

ENTRANCE

PROGRAM OBSERVATORY

1: IDENTIFY SITE MEASUREMENTS (~10,000 sq ft)

3: USE FORMS TO CREATE OBSERVATORY/ CAFE, ENTARNCE VOLUMES

4: PLACE FORMS ON SITE AND ADD OPENINGS

5: ADD RAMPS AND NATURE TO TOPO FOR FINAL RESULT

PROGRAM OBSERVATORY

2: CREATE BASIC 2D FORMS

4: PLACE FORMS ON SITE AND ADD OPENINGS

CAFE OBSERVATORY PROGRAM

4: PLACE FORMS ON SITE AND ADD OPENINGS

2: CREATE BASIC 2D FORMS

3: USE FORMS TO CREATE OBSERVATORY/ CAFE, ENTARNCE VOLUMES

STRATEGY ENTRANCE CAFE

3: USE FORMS TO CREATE OBSERVATORY/ CAFE, ENTARNCE VOLUMES

4: PLACE FORMS ON SITE AND ADD OPENINGS

4: PLACE FORMS ON SITE ADD OPENINGS

5: ADD RAMPS AND NATURE TO TOPO FOR FINAL RESULT

STRATEGY ENTRANCE CAFE

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STRATEGY PROGRAM ENTRANCE CAFE OBSERVATORY

STRATEGY ENTRANCE CAFE

1: IDENTIFY SITE MEASUREMENTS (~10,000 sq ft)

5: ADD RAMPS AND NATURE TO TOPO FOR FINAL RESULT

STRATEGY

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Entrance Perspective

Cafe Balcony Perspective

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Viridis Sustainable Living

Brandon Ableman, Jair Lozano, Ahmad Safi Fall 2022

Project Achievements: Class Showcase Univesity of Texas at Arlington Project Location: 630 S Llewllyn Ave., Dallas, Tx, 75208 Instructor: Mehdi Farahbakhsh

This project takes place in the Bishop Arts District of Dallas across from John Peeler Elementary School. The main objectives of the project itself is that it must able to be made in 3d printing techniques and have an overall compression form, allow itself to be accessible to the 15 minute city principle, utilize landscape in its design, and lastly follow inspiration from concepts generated by the AI image generator “MidJourney”.

The site was selected as it is located within a community that presents many factors evident to a population that would benefit from having such a design as the one designed in this project. The added benefit of having the Bishop Arts District within close proximity of the site is also a major contributor in the ideas used to create the landscape-based architectural design.

Required Program: Open Pavillion Area, Allocated Commercial Areas, Studio Apartments (40%), One-Bedroom Apartments (40%), Two-Bedroom Apartments (20%)

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Utilizing the surrounding elements around our site, we focused primarily on the existing transportation routes and decided on making our build site more friendly towards pedestrian and bicycle traffic.

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Initial Form Diagrams

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Floor Plan Initial Sketches

MidJourney AI Inspiration Collage

Studio Floor Plan 22

Two Bedroom Floor Plan 23

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Site Plan Floor Design

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To better grasp the concept of how our site and building design would flow more naturally, we utilized loose fabric and pins to create an impromptu model on how the shape our ideas would play out. By scrunching up the fabric and pinning it in place, we able to simulate a somewhat accurate depiciton of what we had envisioned for our design.

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Cloth Drape Study

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Massing Model on Site Section Model

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Dallas Culinary Institute

Brandon Ableman, Kennett Rivera Fall 2021

Project chievements: Class Showcase University of Texas at Arlington

Project Location: 200 Browder St. Dallas, Tx, 75201 Instructor: Liliana Morales

This project takes place in Downtown Dallas. It asks for the design an academy of culinary arts by analyzing disciplines. One can find that the art of cooking and designing the experience of food and that of designing space through architecture are very comparable in nature. Both disciplines are intrinsically involved in human life in vast ways, and both involve analogous creative thought process.

Accordingly, the city’s urban context and project site carriers its own layered history in terms of food, cultural demographics, and architecture. Each project should set up a series of parameters that are introduced to generate inspiration for the development of a project strategy that ties the function of the building to its experience and relationship to the context in which it sits. Through the design process, the objective is to filter, edit and readapt to respond to the given set of parameters and components to develop a design narrative for the project.

Required Program:

Community Cafe (Dining and Kitchen), Lecture Auditorium (1), Lecture Rooms (2), Classroom Spaces (5), Kitchen/ Baking Studios (3), Student Commons, Library, Multimedia Studio (1), Student Research Garden, Back of House/ Storage, Administration/ Faculty Offices, Restrooms.

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