M. ARCH Emmanuel Garcia
‘13 STAGGERED STACKS SEAN LALLY | XAVIER VENDRELL
‘13 ACCELERATED EVOLUTION SEAN LALLY
‘14 OBELISK OF CONSUMERISM EVOLO COMPETITION
‘12 DOWNTOWN CROWN STEWART HICKS
‘11 ROSSIVILLE SCHOOL PAUL PREISSNER | KELLY BAIR
‘10 CHAMPAIGN COMMUNITY CENTER SCOTT MURRAY
‘09 LOUIS MAJORELLE MEDIATHEQUE ANDRES SOUZA BLANES
‘12 ADDITIONAL WORKS
‘09 TRAVEL SKETCHES
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STAGGERED STACKS This housing complex offers a more dynamic approach to the typical Chicago apartment experience, one in which both the private and public realms benefit.
The Staggered Stacks, located in a commercial zone, addresses setbacks, occupancy limits, minimum parking requirements, and various other building codes,
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while still maintaining a distinct geometry that allows for a dynamic alternative to the common Chicago housing experience.
The pods in the front of the building offer an alternative to the traditional storefront experience, an entryway to the retail level underground, and main entrance to the units above while creating a public space set back from the hustle and bustle of passers-by.
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The residents of the complex enjoy access to sun lit, collective, and open balcony space on every level. The primary circulation spaces are then placed on the opposite side of units, ensuring a buffer zone between the fast and slow circulation spaces.
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Here we see the relationship between the unit, the main circulation corridor, and the exterior. Between the unit and the corridor a decal gradient is utilized to provide privacy while still allowing views outwards, much the same as perforated super graphics. Between the corridor and the exterior, a louver system is implemented to hide the cores of each unit, provide a visually stimulating facade, and frame views out to the city through breaks in the dense louver system.
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Each unit size has both a linear and bent layout, offering prospective tenants 6 distinct unit layouts to choose from. Adjacent units’ water walls as well as storage add another level of privacy between units.
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ACCELERATED EVOLUTION
By opening up a dialogue with plants we are able to directly and immediately alter plants‘ physical behaviors. This allows us access to, and design of, energy resources that have been otherwise unknown to us as well as an opportunity to push our relationship with plants to a new level. Humans will be able to directly and immediately affect their surroundings, creating a truly interactive scape. This innovation opens up new doors as far as what we conceive as designed places and spaces, integrating biospheres in search of a new, better, standard of living, one in which we don’t simply pave over the landscape, but amplify it.
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In the past our relationship with plants was one of attempted control, such as agriculture, greenhouses, construction, etc., ultimately extraction of raw materials through destructive means in attempts to mimic the physical properties of plants. As concerns over the environment increased many schools of thougt emerged, some for conservation, others for equality. What I propose is an accelerated evolution of both not to conserve but to advance.
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This new relationship focuses on harnessing the properties of plants through the implementation of plant material in the form of a designed pavilion to arrive at a new type of space. A user will be able to wander between varying intensities and types of energies, both as a collective or as a single user. This pavilion aims to advance what we consider the typical landscape, a field with objects we walk around and look at, with one who’s properties can be altered and amplified, thus going from passive observer to active participant.
Thermal Radiation
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A set of typologies was created to address matters of scale, intensity, direction, and the overlaps of the spaces created by the layers of energy that perforate the ground.
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While the energies featured were Chemical, Electromagnetic, Thermal, and Auditory the system could be applied to all sorts of energies.
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In this pavilion the evolution of redefined as an immediate give and both plant material and humans is take. accelerated and the relationship between the two is strengthened and
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As one’s frequenting of the pavilion increases so too does his control and intensity of his own electromagnetic field.
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Here we can see how the pavilion could be traversed at various speeds. In much the same way as a gym a series of energy hubs are scattered throughout the pavilion. A user could then go through the pavilion at their leisure depending on one’s preference and ability. The
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pavilion is in this way an exploration of the potentials of designing with energy. This reiterates the goal of an immediate interaction between the user and the environment melding together the control of interiors with the potentials of the exterior.
OBELISK OF CONSUMERISM The Obelisk of Consumerism is an architecture that aims to keep up with a changing world, capitalizing on future global trends before they are conceptualized in order to situate the design ahead of programs it will one day be responsible for. By creating the first fully automated vertical distribution center for the greater metropolitan areas of the United States, the Obelisk of Consumerism directly responds to our culture’s demand for immediate gratification and growth.
Emmanuel Garcia Michael Kendall Jeremy Pacheco
Online Sales Projections Source: Forrester Research Online Retail Forecast
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Currently, online sales are up 13 percent from 2012 to 2013 and from 2012 to 2017 they are projected to increase from 231 billion to 370 billion in the United States. This trend is only increasing as the prices of online goods, coupled with free shipping and convenience, make buying goods online an everyday occurrence. Knowing this, the tower is not meant to be complete in form, but rather the form is to be an indicator of economic prosperity. As the tower shrinks and grows, the city understands the economic health of the country beyond numbers and stock prices. The obelisk is a physical manifestation of the impact of the digital collective, the urban condition’s response to the big box stores of the suburbs.
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The typical shopper experience will no longer include a commuting component or the, usually expensive, next day delivery. One will be able to sit in one’s own living room, order one of thousands of items from within the towers inventory and receive the package(s) in less than an hour thanks to automated sorting and drones delivering packages round the clock.
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The process starts when smart shipping containers are delivered to the site via Lake Michigan. They are then lifted vertically and placed into a structural storage system until goods are ordered. Once something is ordered, goods are dispensed from the smart containers onto a conveyer belt where bins are filled by items going to similar locations. Once these bins are filled, drones land above, grab the bin, and begin their delivery route.
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Typical Three Floor Module The obelisk is made up of multiple layers of structure, specifically, an inner core of elevators running on both vertical and horizontal tracks, a structural core of shipping containers, a clear passage for drones to move through, and an irregular exterior panel system made up of carbon fiber paneling laminated with a solar collecting layer that doubles as an LED screen. Both the tower itself and the drones are powered by the solar panels.
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Since the obelisk is fully automated there are no doors or windows as with nearly all Chicago style skyscrapers. Besides drone delivery, the only interaction a resident of Chicago can have with the tower is purely visual. By day one will be able to appreciate the, seemingly, hand carved characteristic of the tower; a well needed relief from the purely extruded forms of its neighbors. At night, the façade’s skin becomes truly brilliant with full envelope display capabilities. The brands, logos, and commercials of the most popular products will inhabit each panel tempting the consumer to help the tower grow. All the while, droves of drones will file in and out of the obelisk in an awesome procession across the sky.
DOWNTOWN CROWN After a variety of exercises dealing with the urban condition as a generator for scenarios our studio was asked to create a convention center atop the once Chicago Spire site. Traditional exhibition space and that which comes with it had to be rethought to appropriately respond to its immediate context.
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This project aimed to bridge the gap between the capital and lobby spaces within a chicago high rise through a continuous crown of exhibtion space. The theme is further explored through the juxtaposing of two contrasting facades.
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The Chicago capitals are reduced down to their cross section and are then used as a canvas for ornamented perforations and a base from which to engender a pixelated volume.
The interior spaces were allowed to embrace the abstraction of ornament through the manipulation of profiles and textures, elaborating upon the effects of Chicago capitals.
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ROSSIVILLE SCHOOL After reading Aldo Rossi’s A Scientific Autobography, our studio was given the task of projecting and applying Rossi’s design theory, one of an “intentional sloppiness.”
(opposite) projection of the curved surface to a Rossi mindset (below) taking the interpretation and applying the context of a school
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This project aimed to bridge the gap between the residential and commercial zones of Champign, IL by making the initial visual impressions of the building playful through the use of fleeting views and a sunken interior.
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steel light shade construction triple glaze glass roof aluminum support steel beam construction
sedum growing medium root barrier drainage layer insulation layer waterproof membrane concrete layer metal decking
flashing concrete paneling steel framing concrete panel tieback rigid insulation steel frame tieback
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LOUIS MAJORELLE MEDIATHEQUE The mediatheque’s program and form aimed to be as dynamic as its context, a neighborhood full of a variety of people as well as respond to the non parallel streets and the adjacent park.
Emmanuel Garcia Phillip Svetich Jairo Ortega
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(above) longitudinal section (opposite) view of the reading bridge, a buffer zone between the library’s two main volumes, each serving the needs of either youth or adult.
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Emmanuel Garcia David Mulder
BURNED PAVILION Structurally projecting and combining Toyo Ito’s Crematorium, Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus’ Chapel, and Saarinen’s TWA Terminal.
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THE HONEYCOMB A structural and formal exploration of the possibilities and limitations of a geometric grid and pod system, here, as an urban pavilion whose kit of parts can be assembled and adjusted to various plan and elevation configurations.
Emmanuel Garcia Brett Gustafson
HEXAPOD PAVILION [2011]
GROUP ONE| BRETT GUSTAFSON | EMMANUEL GARCIA
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PILLOWS, SACKS, AND SOFT THINGS
Surface experimentation with seemingly soft forms.
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DOUBLE OR NOTHING Combining the attributes of two objects so that the resultant form cannot be divided.
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TRAVEL SKETCHES
Emmanuel Garcia (708) 781 - 5424
garcia.emmanuel.05@gmail.com
Campus Address 519 N May st Apt 3 Chicago, IL 60642
Permanent Address 2255 W 121 Pl Blue Island, Il 60406
Education Fall ‘11 - Spring ‘14 University Of Illinois At Chicago Fall ‘07 - Spring ‘11 University Of Illinois At Urbana - Champaign Fall ‘09 - Spring ‘10 Study Abroad Program In Versailles Ecole Nationale Superieure D’architecture de Versailles Awards RMHC (Ronald Mcdonald House Charities) Scholarship ‘07- ‘11
M. Arch B.S. Arch
James Scholar ‘07 - ‘08
Extra Curricular Chicago Architecture For Humanity AIAS - UIC Chicago Architecture Foundation Teens mentor Habitat For Humanity Washington Elementary School Robot Competition volunteer at weekly gatherings to guide youth in the creation of lego robots through problem solving and team working activites Proyecto Che (Children For Higher Education) volunteer at bi-monthly gatherings for the 4-H sponsored youth development program
Languages Fluent and competent in both English and Spanish
Software Knowledgeable And Experienced With autoCAD rhinoceros revit adobe CS6 maya
google sketchup v-ray 3D studio MAX microsoft office
Leadership Experience 2009
2008
American Youth Soccer Association Coach Blue Island, IL coached 12-17 year olds in the fundamentals of soccer organized practices drills and times promoted the importance of team work SHPE Freshmen Round Table Community Service Chair Champaign, IL informed members of various volunteering opportunities volunteered at B.T. Washington Elementary as Lego League mentor co-organized youth educational enrichment events
Work Experience 2014 2013 2013 2013 2011
Woodshop Assistant teaching assistant Freelance drafting/logo design FGM Architects intern Wheeler Kearns Architects model builder Lauren Schreyer & Associates interior design assistant
Website http://emmanuelrgarcia.com
Portfolio http://issuu.com/emmanuel_garcia/docs/architecture_portfolio_14
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