Selected Works 2025 Daniel Medina

SELECTED WORKS Daniel Jafet Medina January 2024

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CONTENT

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Cal Poly Pomona (Spring 2023) Santa Ana Mixed Use Housing

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Cal Poly Pomona (Fall 2022) Scientist Retreat

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Cal Poly Pomona (Fall 2022) Cantilever Lookout

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Cal Poly Pomona (Fall 2021) Museum of Contemporary Japanese Art

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Cal Poly Pomona (Fall 2023) Water Delegation Center (The Last of Us) Contributors: Daniel J Medina / Chelsea Santos

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Santa Ana Mixed-Use Housing Economy, Modularity, Porosity, Experience. This are the driving forces of this project. In Santa Ana the need for equal, yet engaging housing is a need and this project aims at proving both. Using a vaulted shape for a housing project forces the architectural space to be grand rather than meek, a place to live should also be a pleasant experience. Using a set of ratios to designate units modularity was achieved and a system of stacking and pulling was created. Trough modularity and the system a porous nature was given to the building to invite the residents into a series of strategically placed voids that invite interaction and communal space in urban living. Lastly trough modularity and the ratio system, an economical system was implemented were regardless of economical class anyone can get access to interesting living spaces.

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16' - 0"

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28' - 0"

12' - 0"

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A 12' - 0"

16' - 0" 101

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40' - 1"

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16' - 0"

12' - 0" 201

BATH 1

BATH 2 79 SF

61 SF KIT/DINING 202

BATH

KIT/ DINING

61 SF

170 SF

27' - 0"

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BED/LIVING

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LIVING

202 SF

LIVING

174 SF

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125 SF

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60 SF

101 SF

A-405

KIT/ DINING

11' - 11"

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BATH

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219 SF

BED 1 149 SF

BED 1 BED 2

15' - 0"

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150 SF 104

BALCONY 23

86 SF

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STUDIO

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Site Plan

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Left: Ground Level Right: Plateau Level 5

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Exterior Visualization

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Wall Section 2 A-310

WALL SECTION TOP

WALL SECTION

RHEINZINK STANDING SEAM ENKAMAT WATERPROOFING PLY. SHEATHING( CURVED)

2X8 ROOF RAFTER(CURVED)

FLASHING 3 PART STUCCO

CONCEALED GUTTER

CONTROL JOINT BLOCKING WRB

D-5 VAULTED ROOF MEETS EXTERIOR WALL

Above: D-5 Vaulted Roof Meets Exterior Wall Bellow: South/East Elevation 8

R-19 W.I

2X6 STUD

Chunk Physical Model Scale: 1/2”= 1’ 9

Above: Exterior Visualization of Vaulted Balcony Bellow: Interior Visualization of Framed Units 10

Scientist Retreat Mt. Wilson is a historical site that offers much renown to the world today ranging from astonishing views, historical discoveries, and valuable work today. The intention of design thus became a reflection of these values. A building suspended from the ground while embracing the natural landscape around it. The concept became a center point. Using a radial circulation the building was given an important space that takes inspiration from the telescopes on site. All places lead to this space making it the heart of the building.

Structurally the building becomes the next step of the circulation, this center point is held up by 4 cores that offer something different in program and in form. The retreat is meant to separate the public vs the private spaces using these 4 cores. The accessible path is a connection to the site that allows views to the building and the environment offering an experience rather than a destination.

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NO PARKING 2% SLOPE

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RESEARCH LAB PARKING

CLOSET BEDROOM

BATHROOM

STORAGE

ADA BATHROOM

POWDER

RESEARCH OFFICE

RESEARCH FACILITIES

PRIVATE SECTION 1

DAYROOM/KITCHEN

EGRESS

SERVICE

BATHROOM TRASH CLOSET

BEDROOM PARKING

Above: Site Plan PRIVATE SECTION 2 Bellow: Program Diagram/ Axonometric Model 12

MEETING DECK

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9. REST ROOM 1. DAY ROOM/KITCHEN 10. DECK 2. BED ROOM 11. MEETING DECK 3. BATHROOM 1.

DAY ROOM/KITCHEN 12.ADA PARKING 9. REST ROOM 4. CLOSET 10. DECK 2.

BED ROOM 13. PRIVATE PARKING 5. SERVICE 11. MEETING DECK 3. BATHROOM 14. STORAGE 6. RESEARCH OFFICE 12.ADA PARKING 7. RESEARCH LAB 4. CLOSET15. TRASH 13. PRIVATE PARKING 16. LOBBY 8. POWDER ROOM 5. SERVICE 14. STORAGE 6. RESEARCH OFFICE 15. TRASH 7. RESEARCH LAB 16. LOBBY 8. POWDER ROOM

Above: Level 2 Bellow: Level 1 13

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1. DAY ROOM/KITCHEN 10. DECK 13. PRIVATE PARKING 16. LOBBY/HALLWAYS

Above: East Elevation Bellow: Section B 14

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Wall Section 15

WALL SECTION 1

Exterior Visualization 16

Cantilever Lookout The Cantilever Lookout design came to be based on the concept of a camera lens. A lookout is a destination one reaches to obtain the last part of a the journey. I wanted to offer something distinct, by making the lookout itself the destination. Like a camera this building functions with light. The form of the building starts by manipulating a rectangular shape that will respond to light and a framed view.

The shape is then arranged in different directions optimizing the light gained inside the space. This results in a cantilever that acts as a camera that frames a view towards the distant panoramic scene.

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SEAMLESS METAL CLADDING

CIRCULATION

POLYCARBONATE PANELS

STRUCTURE

DOUBLE PANED GLASS

System Diagram 18

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Above: Level 2 Bellow: Level 1 19

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Long Section A 20

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Exterior Visualization 21

Museum of Contemporary Japanese Art This design was born from the idea of a space inside of a space, a nest. The overall approach to this building is to create a center point of galleries all connected through the idea of nesting. With this restriction, the circulation of the building needed to make sense for the people experiencing the galleries. The easiest way to experience this is through a circulation that takes the person trough the side of the building were the nesting created voids. The program was developed surrounding the galleries and formed to the advantage of the center spaces created by the nest. In conclusion, the circulation is a factor born of the idea of the nest and an important element of this design. The connections in the horizontal and vertical aspects create a difference in light for galleries that add depth to this idea and allow for the nesting to make important spaces.

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SUBLEVEL

SERVICE AND ART STORAGE

MAIN STAIRS AND RAMPS

AUDITORIUM AND CLASSROOM

EGRESS CORES

ADMINISTRATION LOBBY SERVICE AND ART STORAGE

MAINGALLERIES STAIRS AND RAMPS

AUDITORIUM AND CLASSROOM

EGRESS CORES

LOBBY GALLERIES

CAFE AND BOOKSTORE

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Left: Program Diagram Top Right: Exterior OUTSIDE SPACE Visualization Bottom Right: Circulation Diagram

SERVICE AND ART STORAGE

MAIN STAIRS AND RAMPS

AUDITORIUM AND CLASSROOM

EGRESS CORES

CAFE AND BOOKSTORE

ADMINISTRATION OUTSIDE SPACE

ADMINISTRATION LOBBY GALLERIES

CAFE AND BOOKSTORE OUTSIDE SPACE

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Above: Ground Level Bellow: Level 2 24

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Section 07, Ever Vargas Daniel Medina

EX04: Museum of Japanese Contemporary Art CPP/ARC ARC2011A F2021

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Long Section A

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Section 07, Ever Vargas Daniel Medina

EX04: Museum of Japanese Contemporary Art CPP/ARC ARC2011A F2021

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ELEVATION A SCALE: 1/8” = 1’-0”

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The Last of Us Environmental, political, and social repercussions created an issue for the delegation of water in the California, Nevada, Arizona, and Native American Regions. This project takes a stance to oppose the status quo and proposes a radical way of delegation by giving back to the community in form of an open and transparent building that would otherwise be a product of a strict typology. In the spirit of delegation this project was done in collaboration with another designer. Creating a system of symbols that restricted circulation, form, direction, and order, a layout was then created following a very prominent grid. This system informs the rest of the project in plan, organizational layout and a performative landscape element. With a landscape that invites and incorporates the public into a very private building, an unapologetic scheme that defies the status quo of delegation buildings we aim to create something that can stand for more than a government purpose but rather an ideology of transparency to the people for which the governments represent.

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Design Tool Created To Facilitate Design Collaboration

Ground Floor First Iteration

The tool works like chess. Using the grid tailored to any project, one designer has a turn to place a piece in a layout that pleases the eye. The other designer can take a turn and either add, subtract, or agree with the move. In order to facilitate collaboration this project was done so in using this experimental tool.

Form/ Architectural Space

Direction/ Architectural Moment

Second Level First Iteration

Stationary Moment/ Core

Direction/ Circulation

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Third Level (Conference) First Iteration

Layout Diagram

SECRETARIAT AND ARCHIVE CONFERENCES ASSEMBLY HALL UNPROGRAMMED SPACE CIRCULATION AND OFFICE LANDSCAPE FOUND OBJECTS

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Landscape Iteration 1

Iteration 1 (Plan)

Landscape Iteration 2

Iteration 2 (Plan)

For the landscape portion of the project, a move towards a more 3 dimensional layout was required. Using B shapes informed by the established language, the board was set to design the landscape.

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+8’

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Ground Floor

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Second SECOND

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Third B

Section A

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THIRD

SECTION A SCALE: 3/64” = 1’-0”

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Intermediary Level

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FOURTH

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Fourth

East Elevation B

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EAST SCALE: 3/64” = 1’-0”

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Fifth SIXTH

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Exterior Visualization

Above: Kit-O-Part Model Picture 32