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Architect Daniel Morgenstern

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Contents Daniel Morgenstern

Architecture Crocodilarium 3 Jalisco 200 6 Thermal Baths 13 Intrerior design H1302 17 2

2021

Crocodilarium Theoretical project

“A young architect came to ask a question. ’I dream of spaces full of wonder.

Spaces that rise and envelop flowingly without beginning, without end, of a jointless material white and gold.

When I place the first line on paper to capture the dream, the dream becomes less.’”

- Louis Kahn

This project was born in a dream where I designed it. So I discovered a latent institution in my mind, something that is missing in my life. Then, I had to design it, trying to express, in the most honest way, this immeasurable form. A place tohave an immersive experience with crocodiles, a Crocodilarium.

Twombly, Robert. Louis Kahn Essential Texts. “Form and Design”. Estados Unidos: Norton, 2003.

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2018 - 2019

Jalisco 200 Final degree project

Mixed use building with housing, office space, and public cultural space in the heart of Tacubaya, a highly dynamic zone in central Mexico City.

This is my final degree project, developed in the workshop of professors Salvador Rivas, Mayra Días and Juan Pablo Serrano.

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Site analysis The site, in the middle of Tacubaya, a dynamic part of Mexico City, has an important transit and commerce vocation, to which the project should respond.

Also, site analysis showed an interesting site potential. Taking advantage of its high connectivity, mixed use zoning and central location in the area, I propose to design a urban hub, providing housing, office space and a public, cultural center.

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Commerce There is a clear relation between pedestrian transit, public transportation stations, and street vendors, that have appropriated the public space.

Pedestrian transit Around 200,000 pedestirans transit the area daily1. Specifically, the property, connects adjacent public space and public transport stations.

Lack of artistic spaces There are only a few small, private, artistic workshops in the area that do not function as public, cultural centers.

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Disjointed public space.

Public space in the area, constituted around Parque Lira Street, is fragmented by harsh primary and secondary streets.

Site Jalisco Ave. 200, San Miguel Chapultepec I, Miguel Hidalgo.

Use: Mixed-use COS: 1,547m2 CUS: 7,736m2 Households: 67 (N/d). Gob.mx. Retrieved on September 11, 2023, from http://seduvi.proyectosurbanos.cdmx.gob.mx/projects/24/ pdfs/cetram_tacubaya.pdf

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Concept “Island” Amid the dynamic Tacubaya sea, a public promenade that participates in all the different programs.

transit 1 buy 2 promenade 3 create 4 work 5 live 6

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Form Finding 1 - Generator Phylogenetic trees were used to generate possible volumes for each program.

Living Private.

Vertical, single bay volumes or a single N-S oriented two bay volume.

4,620m2 (67 apartments, 60m2 each, plus 15% circulations).

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Working Semi-private.

Vertical single volume, or up to two volumes with a courtyard.

6,000m2.

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Creating Semi-public, connection with street level.

Horizontal volume.

6,000m2.

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2 - Matrix Working and Living (vertical) volumes were multiplied in to generate possible sets. Each outcome was then evaluated in emplacement, context relation, access location, sun path and orientation.

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l13 2 l13 l122 32 l13 l121 21 l1 l13 3211 l13 212 l12 23 l12 12 1 l12 1

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EE: 173/683

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EE: 169/643

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By Autodesk 360. (Highest/lowest annual value). Measured in Kwh/m2/year.

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By Autodesk Flow Design.

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3 - Evaluation Finally, the 6 top ranked sets were further analyzed in energetic efficiency1 (EE) and wind flow2. Wind flow was equaly good in all cases. Energy efficiency was best in set 3.

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Circulations

Cultural park

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Commercial passage

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Program

Process diagramatic scheme model

Process diagramatic scheme model

Process diagramatic program model

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Passive Design

6 summer 5 winter

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Thermal mass Structural concrete walls (1) are oriented to work as thermal mass, receiving direct morning (2) and evening (3) sun. Balconies help control sun from the south admiting direct sunlight during winter and blocking it during summer.

Evaporation Rainwater is collected in an open tank in the lower levels, whose evaporation cools the project.

Cross ventilation The difference in air pressure between the north façade [receiving the site’s dominant winds from the NNE (1)] and the central area of the project (2) is used to generate cross ventilation (3).

Convection In the office spaces, cooler air from the north entering through lower vents (1) drives hot air up to the ceiling space through convection (2), that is then ejected to the center of the project through crossed ventilation (3). Hot air released to the central space of the project (4) is then driven up and out of it through convection generated by the open tank’s water evaporation (5).

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2018

Thermal Baths Theoretical project Theoretical project with no real site that sought to appropriate design strategies used by Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Designed for the workshop “Suficiente Arquitectura” 1 by Víctor Alcérreca and Fermin Andrade.

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“Enough Architecture” in spanish.

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Organic Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright

The project adapts to the site spreading out on terraces, with dispersed vertical circulations.

Fallingwater

by Frank Lloyd Wright (1937)

Thermal baths

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Architecture Thermal Baths

Structural Clarity Mies van der Rohe

The project offers a clear reading of its distinct structural elements and their function.

Crown Hall

by Mies van der Rohe (1956)

Thermal baths

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Architecture Thermal Baths

Open Plan

Mies van der Rohe

The user can circulate fluently through the project.

House with Three Courts

by Mies van der Rohe (1934)

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2021

H1302 Built

Interior design project for a couple of designes.

Furniture selection in collaboration with Bruci editora de diseño1.

Conceptual moodboard by the client

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“Bruci design editor” in spanish; mexican design studio.

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Interior design H1302

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Interior design H1302

Process sketch

Process sketch

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Interior design H1302

Process conceptual image

Process conceptual image

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