ARCH Undergraduate Portfolio

CAMILA PLATE

ARCHITCETUREPORTFOLIO

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE

SPRING 2023

E m e r g e n c y H o u s i n g

I n c u b a t o r

F r a m e H o u s e D e s i g n P r o j e c t

Y o u t h S h e l t e r a n d L e a r n i n g C e n t e r

N a k a g i n C a p s u l e T o w e r C a s e S t u d y

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EMERGENCY HOUSI

For this project we designed a building wher emergency housing can be develop. It was desig and the program had to include offices, as well a The design for this building consist in to connected on the second level through a balcony

1ST FLOOR 2ND FLOOR 3RD & 4TH FLOOR 2 3 1 5 4 6 1 2 3 7 8 9 9 10

1. RECEPTION 2. CONFERENCE 3. OFFICES 4. MOCKUP 5. LOADING DOCK 6. MECHANICAL ROOM 2. CONFERENCE 3. OFFICES 7. BREAK ROOM 8. EXHIBITION 9. STUDIO 9. STUDIO 10. MATERIAL TESTING

INCUBATOR | NORTH ELEVATION + TRANSVERSIONAL SECTION

WEST ELEVATION + LONGITUDINAL SECTION

HOGAR DE NINOS & CENTRO EDUCATIVO

The goal of this project was to provide housing to vulnerable groups like low-income families or the homeless. I wanted to focus on children in the streets in Buenos Aires, Argentina. About 66% of kids leaving in the streets are from the age of 13 to 18, for that reason I decided for this housing project to be the home of 7th graders to seniors making this not only a place for them to live but also learn.

DORMS RESTROOMS AMENITIES ACCESSIBILITY 2ND FLOOR 3RD TO 5TH FLOOR GROUND FLOOR LIBRARY 1 CAFETERIA 2 KITCHEN 3 PRINCIPAL'S OFFICES 4 NURSING 5 GAMES CHECK-OUT 6 LOUNGE 7 CLEAN CLOSET 8 MEDIA ROOM 9 GAME ROOM 10 BALCONY 11 CLASSROOMS 12 TEACHER'S OFFICES 13 STUDY ROOMS 14

SOUTH

ELEVATIONS NORTH

HOGAR DE NIÑOS |

INTERIOR RENDERS

HOGAR DE NIÑOS |

Each unit is designed to be a shared room for two kids where each one has their own space. All the furniture is built-in and this includes bunk beds with a small closet and a desk area at the bottom as well as drawers for storage inside the steps of the stair to the loft. The steps of the stairs are retractable in a way that whenever it's not being used can be put away to provide more space in the room.

15' 8'5'' 10'

R O O M T Y P E B

There's a total of 180 rooms to shelter 360 kids without counting 12 rooms designated for floor supervisors.

DESIGN PROJECT | FRAMES

This project started with 5 frames of 25'5x25'5 and a grid system, each frame had to have different openings while following and maintaining the grids. Later we placed the frames in a given site of 101'8x25'5 and from there design a house. This house had to follow a proposed program and the frames' grids that were now part of the plan. The house couldn't go higher than the 25'5 guideline so it's a 2-story plan with some double-volume areas. For the opening of the frames I took inspiration from the windows at the Esherick House by Louis Kahn,

2 N D F L O O R 1 S T F L O O R B A S E M E N T PLANS + LEGEND 1st FLOOR 1 Entrance 2 Guest bathroom 3 Dinning room 4 Kitchen 5 Living room 6 Patio + Pool 2nd FLOOR 7 On suite bedroom 8 Bathroom 9 Office 10 Front balcony 11 Patio Balcony BASEMENT 12 Game room + bar 13 Gym 14 Bathroom 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 11 12 13 14

ON SITE 7 9 10

FRAMES

INTERIOR RENDERS

DESIGN PROJECT | TRANSVERSE SECTION

NAKAGIN CAPSULE TOWER CASE STUDY

This was a group project where we had to choose one building that uses the modular system and build a case study for it. We chose Nakagin Capsule Tower by Kisho Kurokawa because of its unique design and its initial idea of stand-alone units that would be able to be replaced individually without altering or moving other units.