Issuu

portfolio darian martinez

FALL

2023

Darian Martinez

Fall 2023

Llano Estacado Migration and Cultural Center Lubbock, Texas

Darian Martinez

Fall 2023

Phase 1: Palimpsest Mapping and Tectonic Assembly

TERTIARY STRUCTURE: STEEL TRUSSED SKYLIGHT SYSTEM W/ LOUVERS

PRIMARY STRUCTURE: PRECAST CONCRETE FRAME W/ HOLLOW CORE ROOF

SECONDARY STRUCTURE: HSS AND STOREFRONT FRAMING

SITECAST FLOOR SLAB

The imposing precast concrete canopy is a manifestation of the regular urban grid, it attempts to provide constraint and boundary to the spaces it envelopes. However, these covered spaces are governed by irregular systems born from necessity or social tendencies. The thin steel and glass structures that enclose much of the spaces continue this concept; although they rest within the regular urban fabric, they are subject to a gravity that shifts, rotates, and transforms them. The center of this gravity is an area adjacent to the two sites, separated by a great barrier of rail lines. This region is defined as an urban erosion – degrading over time as the surrounding areas grow and develop around it, leaving what is now an abandoned lot. The grid that radiates from this center disrupts the regular urban grid and places a strong hierarchy on a space that has been lost due to a lack of urban development. Furthermore, this radial grid is expressed in the development of the transportation platform structure, giving equal impact to the cultural aspects and infrastructural aspects of the design.

1000 ft

Darian Martinez

Fall 2023

Phase 1: Palimpsest Mapping and Tectonic Assembly 2” TOPPING SLAB MOISTURE BARRIER

The thin system of hollow steel tubing and glass storefronts reinforces the unique spatial relationships created by the superimposition of the two grids. The substructures are placed under the canopy in a way that reflects the irregular placement of buildings on a regular city block, creating within them a series of oblique alleyways and urban courtyards. The spaces are bound by larger avenues of circulation that bisect the canopy and create a barrier between different programs.

10” HOLLOW CORE SLAB

GROUTED JOINT 24” PRECAST BEAM 4” BATT INSULATION DOUBLE HEADER FRAMING 1/2” EXTERIOR SHEATHING KAWNEER TRIFAB STOREFRONT SYSTEM 6” BATT INSULATION SUSPENDED CEILING

The steel structure bridging the two sites is a further development of a regular grid disrupted by an ideal radial grid, instead, the entire form of the structure is altered through the intersection of these two grids rather than the superimposition of them as seen in the precast and glass structures. The radial grid cuts and shifts the bridge structure, continuously offsetting it to reach from the cultural avenue to the commercial avenue, an uninterrupted pedestrian circulation from culture, commerce, and transport.

2” TOPPING SLAB 24” PRECAST DOUBLE TEE 12” FOUNDATION WALL 6” RIGID INSULATION MOISTURE BARRIER

Through the procession from one area of the site to another the user experiences a condensed urban environment in a series of passages that range in scale and experience through changing overhead conditions.

SCALE: 1” = 1’ 6”

darian martinez | ARCH 3350

Darian Martinez

Fall 2023

Phase 3: Urban Program STUDIOS

FOUNDATION OFFICES

AMPITHEATRE OBSERVATION 2

culture

TRANSIT OFFICE

OBSERVATION 1

RESTURAUNT COMMERCIAL

AMPITHEATRE STUDIOS 1: LOBBY 2: AMPITHEATRE 1: STUDIOS 2: EXTERIOR EXHIBIT 1: PRESENTATION 2: INTERIOR EXHIBIT

1: PARKING 2: INTERIOR EXHIBIT PARKING

ARCHIVE

TRAIN ACCESS

PARKING + OBSERVATION

COMMERCIAL + RESTURAUNT

WELCOME CENTER FOUNDATION OFFICE TRANSIT OFFICE

design iteration: programming at an urban scale using pre-existing condition

Phase 2: Urban Program and Spatial Strategy Three primary user groups will inhabit the Migration and Cultural Center daily; these groups are defined as cultural users, commercial users, and transportation users. Thus the design responds to these user groups at both a local and an urban scale. The urban program is developed by separating the superstructure into 3 distinct sectors, defined by their proximity to their respective urban zones within downtown Lubbock’s fabric. The local program is resolved through the integration of a secondary structural system. This secondary structural system consists of a thin HSS frame infilled with a robust curtain wall system, creating smaller spaces within the primary precast structure to accommodate the smaller scale of program.

transportation

commerce

Darian Martinez

Fall 2023

d 01

studio 1

studio 2 studio 3

studio 4 studio 5

studio 6

studio 7

studio 8

e 01

reception storage conference archive director’s office