This portfolio contains projects that showcase my work while studying at the University of Illinois at Chicago school of Architecture. Although these works do demonstrate my skills and progression of abilities while in undergrad, this is only the beginning of my potential and I strive to grow further. I aspire to improve my graphic abilities as well as refine my technical skills. With my education as a foundation, I wish to build my career through hard work, perseverance, and discipline in everything I do.
City of Chicago RFP
Fourth Year Architectural Design Studio
Instructor: Ryan Palider
Collaborators: Kaitlin Cabel, Allison Decoster, Marisol Preciado, Hamza Shahin
Locatedon the corner of 89th and Commercial in Chicago's East side, the proposal requested by the City of Chicago revolved around invigorating the oncethriving commercial business of the iconic community while simultaneously providing a space for the community to use.
The project proposes a multi-use building that exhibits popular archiectural materials and patterns as well as key colors located throughout the community. It likewise designates an interiorized open area to provide the community with a recreationalspace easily accessed bythe mainstreets while maintaining a sense of seclusion.
Massing Assembly
Facade Elevations 1:75
The exterior facade of the building consists of brickwork pictogram protrusions abstracted from common facade geometries located throughout the community. Likewise, the colors selected for the protrusions originate from unique and vibrant colors displayed on buildings throughout the community.
Courtyard Facade Sections 1:75
In order to outline the community’s historic steel industry, the facade of the courtyards depicts an abstraction of a steel factory skyline that is well known in the area. Additionally, the sets of colors utilized in the patterning derived from the brick colors seen throughout the comminuty in the architecture of Commercial Ave .
Perforations on the first level in the form of arches create lines of sight into and out of the open spaces. This is done in order to establish connections between said spaces and the streets, maintaining these spaces as public while simultneously developing a space more secluded from the exterior. The upper levels of the open spaces are completely open to the outside, and are covered with a vertical louvre system. This allows those residing in the units to be able to look into and experience the open areas while offering them privacy from it, establishing a more direct relationship between the residents and the public spaces.
The first level contains all of the commercial programs of the site, adding multiple restaurants along with retail stores in order to create a functioning space within the open area and atrium for the community. The prexisting building contains a rentable space for the public as well as the lobby space that leads to the top 3 floors of the site, all of which contain 51 units of housing.
89th Street Atrium Entrance Atrium
Commercial Avenue Courtyard Entrance Courtyard
Unit Plans 1:15
The units of the residential area are situated in a single loaded corridor, there are 4 primary types of units: the single bedroom, located along the West wing, the double bedroom, located along the South wing, the triple bedroom, located along the East wing, and the studio apartments, located within the pre-existing building.
Single Bedroom Section Perspective
In order to maximize lighting in each of the 3 main unit types, clerestory windows were installed along the hallway leading into the courtyard. The use of the vertical louvre systemhere further allows more light to flter into the hallways and the units as a whole.
Studio Apartment Perspective
The lightwells that each pair of studio apartments share was constructed in order to maximize the amount of light that can enter the pre-existing building’s room due to the inability to install windows.
Architecture and Collective Living
ThirdYearArchitecturalDesignStudio
Instructors: James Carter, Francesco Marullo, Abigail Chang, Chris Frye
Collaborator: Hamza Shahin
This monastery explores the relationship between a space’s core and its surrounding. This is accomplished through the implementation of varying design features, such as hidden furniture and the use of varying f oor heights to differentiate space.
There are 4 main design aspects tackled in this project that ref ect these ideas: the design of the fathers’ cells, the brothers’ cells, the fathers’ cell core, and the farming core.
Monastery
Monastery Chapel
Father's Cell, Interior
Brother Cells, Exterior
Dairy Farm Entrance
12 Fathers' Cell Details
The fathers’ cells explore this idea through the use of steps that wrap around a central core. The core functions as a central living system containing all of the amenities required for the fathers with the steps respresenting the “room” for each space acting as a landing. The garden for the cell is broken into pieces and placed at the corners of every other step acting as a transition between each functional platform. The plants growing within each garden likewise correspond with the function of the landing that precedes it.
Due to the simplicity of the brothers’ amenities, the relationship between the core and the open space is inverse to that of the fathers’ cells. Rather than establishing the core as the central space, the core is instead wrapped around the centralzied open space. The space itself has enough room for any one of the amenities, which are tucked away within each room’s walls, to be accessed.
Chcago frame
Second Year Architectural Design Studio Instructors: Ryan Palider
Between the Great Fire of 1871 and 1925, Chicago saw an unprecedented development and exploration of metal frame structures, resulting in a proliferation of buildings that influenced the evolution of modern architecture. This studio looked at the development of the Chicago Frame through the analysis of its most iconic historical examples and speculated about possible alternative uses, creative alterations, and improvements via the design of a new multistory building.
Axon. Diagram
Axonometric
The sets of floors create a spiraling subtraction in the building that acts as a central atrium space. This void acts as a bridge for the different spaces and floors. The atrium has a visual communication between the commercial and mixed use spaces while keeping them separate.
The lower plates have a diagonal subtraction that creates a deep recession providing more commercial space connected to the atrium. The upper plates with orthogonal subtractions connect more fluidly due to the mixed use function of these spaces.
Floors 9-12
Floors 5-8
Section Perspective
Section Perspective, Cut A
The space is separated in three sets of floors with various uses. The upper levels are intended to house space for activities and provide the option of a ballroom or venue location with a private terrace.
The middle and lower levels are designed to house commercial property and act as lobby space; the middle levels are intended for office space with an open floor plan and a large terrace space provided by the subtraction on these floors. The lower levels are intended for retail locations with the easy access to the cross streets and ample utilization of the long diagonal cut connecting to the cylindrical void creating an atrium.
The Project utilizes a system of colored louvers and a concrete ribbon on the facade to frame the space. The louvers provide a multi-tone shading system balanced to provide optimal light while also providing sufficient cooling. The two-tone color decreases the absorption of light while leaving enough to maintain a suitable climate within the structure. This use of toned louvers is used in some Chicago parking garages to liven the otherwise simple space as is done here.
20 Urban Operation and Composition
First Year Architectural Design Studio
Instructors:
Grant Gibson
This project explores the 3 primary types of city space: urban, suburban, and rural spaces and the unique aspects of each space as well as how they can begin to relate to one another. This project in particular analyzes these types of spaces within the city of Detroit and begins to interconnect these spaces in order to develop a coherent quarter mile by quarter mile system. The analysis of these spaces began with remodelling strips of key moments from each of the spaces into a lattice in order to extrapolate concepts for an original community.
The urban space studied in Detroit that was provided for this project consists of an abandoned chemical refinery. Although this type of urban space is very atypical, it is in fact very reminiscent of Detroit’s once booming industrial economy.
The suburban space studied in Detroit consists of a series of very typical suburban houses. The most unique aspect of this space isn’t derived from the houses; rather it comes from the organization of the space. The streets are not situated on a typical grid and consist of many bends and and cul-de-sacs with bodies of water between the large enclosed spaces formed by the streets.
The rural space within Detroit consists of a large golf course. Compared to the other two spaces, this space is much more open. The golf course is loosely organized around a centralized core creating adequate space between each hole. The cours wraps around the central buildings that house utilities.
In this design, the aspects of the three spaces were merged and overlaid to create a residential and industrial community with a public golf course superimposed between many of the shared residential and industrial spaces. The residential spaces wrap around a large body of water forming a long cul de sac street with many trees privatizing the community from other spaces. The golf course is mixed along many of the edges of the residential community and acts as a mediation between the residential and the industrial.
Along the edge of the residential and industrial spaces trees are used to separate the spaces. A secondary set of trees are used to create privacy between the homes located in the residential area.
