CJN Architectural Portfolio 2023

Cesmarie Jimenez

Selected Works

SCAPE SAN JOSE high-rise

PROFESSIONAL

RECAPTURING THE SYSTEM

| MOTION ANALYTICAL DIAGRAM

CIRCUIT GYM ILLUSTRATIONS

CITY PUBLIC SECLUSION

iconic bridge competition creating diversity in a homogenous system capture movement in a fixed space equity through commoning domestic space

for a new gym in bend

in different media

ART creating interest with modular materials Front Elevation Lateral Elevation In a society where art is not accesible to everyone the project tries to engage the viewer to experience art in both a two-dimensional and a three-dimensional form. The pavilion tries to be an art piece as much as an exhibition platform. The concept derives from the idea that generally a gallery space is static and the user experience it by moving throught it. So what if, as the user moves throught it the spacealso changes? The project achieves such by starting with the repetition of archways and as the viewer enters the pavilion the archway transform themselves. Its the idea of a space exemplying movement; and how we can create it with the simplest of form/volume/shape. The pavilion has approxmately 10 possible paths, although some path dont lead out of it, but instead guide you torwards some niche that are raised to create a hierarchy inside the pavilion. The purpose of different pathways is to engage the viewer in an exploratory exercise. It is intended to be viewed as a puzzle with many solutions CAPTURING movement

CONTENTS ACADEMIC

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

HYBRID

THE

SHARED

[amsterdam]

proposal

explorations

SHIFTING

housing development

in California

RECAPTURING THE SYSTEM [AMSTERDAM]

ICONIC BRIDGE

In a city as Amsterdam, where bridge form part of the urban landscape, it is a challenge to denote a specific bridge over another one. To create an iconic bridge, the proposal gets away from formal bridge typologies. It aims to promote different trajectories while experiencing the bridge. It gives the user the liberty to create his or her own paths of desire. Furthermore, the concept creates juxtaposition between line and volume which creates dynamic tension between the elements. The program is located inside the volumes which provide a rich visual experience created by the irregular shape of the space.

The bridge is intended to be supported by the facades using tension wires and a structural grid connected under the platforms. The proposal intends to give the user a more exciting experience than just crossing a bridge, creaing interesting walkways to enjoy the panorama.

COMPETITION

To establish and create an evident connection between both canal sides, the proposal derives from two(2) independent systems extruded from the regularities of the openings in each facade. The shape arises from the resulting clusters when overlapping both systems.

ADMIN CAFE

BIKE SHOP

HYBRID MOTION

CREATING DIVERSITY IN A HOMOGENOUS SYSTEM

While evaluating Milwaukie’s history and urban fabric it became clear the homogeneity that presides over it. In my project I experimented with ways to carve out space in a homogenous system in order to add diversity. The proposal has incorporated the use of a climbing gym as the motion component of the project.

DIAGRAMS: EXISTING BUILDING IN MILWAUKIE AND POTENTIAL SPACE FOR DIVERSITY

MIXED USE

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OPPOSITE PAGE: IN THIS PROPOSAL THE SYSTEM IS PREPRESENTED BY THE GRIDS THAT MANIFEST IN THE SITE.

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FLOOR PLANS

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3-DIMENSIONAL VIEW

SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

SOUTH ELEVATION

SHARED CITY | PUBLIC SECLUSION

Equity Through Commoning Domestic Space

Sharing forces things that were once in the private sphere of a residence to enter a semipublic or public realm and that poses a potential conundrum of tarnishing the roll of the private sphere which is a sphere to one’s self for isolation and for gaining depth for recognizing ones individuality and their view points and to return to the public sphere with a clear voice of what they bring to the public sphere. To heighten this tension through an architectural response which radically reduces the private realm to its essential elements of sleeping, storage and servicing of human life and giving the rest back to the public realm. A series of cores, thermally enclosed spaces, in which all private life happens within them. Around these cores are series of outdoor terraces that connect to them in figural ways sometimes connecting anywhere from 2 to 5 cores. These platforms become luxurious share outdoor areas that are much more openly planned and used. So essentially what we have is vertical cores that are the private realm and horizontal platform of different scales.

SHARE DIAGRAM INDIVIDUAL VS. COLLECTIVE HOUSING

2018 ACSA/AIA HOUSING DESIGN EDUCATION AWARD LEAD BY PROF. NEERAJ BHATIA 2017 SEOUL BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM: AT HOME TOGETHER

PLAN - LEVEL 1 N

N N SECTION PERSPECTIVE PLAN - LEVEL 2 PLAN - LEVEL 3

N 17th St. 17th St. 16th St. 16th St. Folsom St. Treat Ave. Treat Ave. Folsom St. Shotwell St. Harrison St. Shotwell St. Capp St. Capp St. S Van Ness Ave. S Van Ness Ave. 18th St. 18th St. THIS PAGE: SITE MAP OPPOSITE PAGE SECTIONAL MODEL

The project in the end is play between the collective and the individual, the kind of extreme reduction of space to the extreme luxury of shared space and also playing atmospherically between thermally enclosed and thermally open spaces and architecturally between the kind of rigidity of a structural grid of vertical cores and the figural overlay of a system of horizontal volumes that colonize them and create subfigures within.

SHIFTING ART Kingspan Pavillion Competion

In a society where art is not accessible to everyone, the project tries to engage the viewer to experience art in both a twodimensional and a three-dimensional form. The pavilion trie to be an art piece as much as an exhibition platform.

The concept derives from the idea that generally a gallery space is static and user experience it by moving through it. The pavillion shifts as the user moves through it. The project achieves this by starting with the repetition of archways and as the viewer enters the pavilion the archways transform into deconstructed archways. The space tries to exemplify movement by creating it with the simplest form.

The pavillion creates around ten possible paths. The purpose of different pathways is to engage the user in an exploratory exercise.

CAPTURING movement

CAPTURING movement Kingspan Pavilion

Competition

Front Elevation Lateral Elevation In a society where art is not accesible to everyone the project tries to engage the viewer to experience art in both a two-dimensional and a three-dimensional form. The pavilion tries to be an art piece as much as an exhibition platform. The concept derives from the idea that generally a gallery space is static and the user experience it by moving throught it. So what if, as the user moves throught it the spacealso changes? The project achieves such by starting with the repetition of archways and as the viewer enters the pavilion the archway transform themselves. Its the idea of a space exemplying movement; and how we can create it with the simplest of form/volume/shape. The pavilion has approxmately 10 possible paths, although some path dont lead out of it, but instead guide you torwards some niche that are raised to create a hierarchy inside the pavilion. The purpose of different pathways is to engage the viewer in an exploratory exercise. It is intended to be viewed as a puzzle with many solutions

PAVILLION

THIS PAGE: PATH DIAGRAM OPPOSITE PAGE: 3-DIMENSIONAL VIEW ELEVATION

ion

ANALYTICAL DIAGRAM

Captured Movement In Fixed Space

A series of explorative diagrams taken from forgotten streets of the city. The exercise explores the pothential of the space both architecturally and artistically. Using the static components and the variable factors present in the space to visually capture the information and translating it in a visual representation.

GRAPHICS THIS PAGE: 1. VOIDS 2.HORIZONTAL MOVEMENTS

THE CIRCUIT GYM BEND

WHILE WORKING FOR CIDA INC.

A proposal for a bouldering gym of approximately 20,000 square feet ground up building on a 2.6’acre site in Bend, Oregon. The project was designed as a metal building frame with metal building walls. It was approved through community design review and was approved in the in the first round of comments and conditions. It was constructed ultimately. Acting as Job Captain, my responsibilities were in schematic design, drafting, project management and presentation of the project to the community board.

COMMERCIAL

THIS PAGE: WEST FACADE OPPOSITE PAGE: SCHEMATIC PLANS TYP. WALL SECTION

SCAPE | SAN JOSE

WORK DONE WITH C2K ARCHITECTURE

Scape is a 23-story residential building with 336 units in downtown San Jose. Residents will be offered access to various shared amenities on several levels. 28 will be affordable housing units. Apartment sizes will vary, with 39 studios, 218 one-bedrooms, and 79 two-bedrooms.

The 252-foot tall structure will yield 366,840 square feet, with 273,720 square feet for residential use, 5,655 square feet for retail, and 51,400 square feet for parking.

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