Eric Tapia Selected Works 2021

ERIC TAPIA

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

2018 - 2021

ACADEMIC PROJECTS & COMPETITIONS

EXTRA (pg. 38 - 45)

THE FILM HOUSE (pg. 4 - 15)

CAMPUS FOR GROWTH (pg. 16 - 21)

1068 MUSEUM (pg. 22 - 25)

EX FILANDA CO-HOUSING (pg. 26 - 29)

BRIDGING THE GAP (pg. 30 - 33)

ROOSEVELT PAVILION (pg. 34 & 35)

ACTIVATING OAKLAND (pg. 36)

TAKE CARE FLATBUSH (pg. 37)

4 THE FILM HOUSE / “FICTIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD” / PROFESSOR MAIA SIMON My last project for my undergraduate education was to explore the interplay between public and private programs and how this could be implemented in a housing typology. The brief was to create a house with public programs on a theoretical block in a fictional neighborhood. The residents are a couple, the woman is a curator for the exhibition space within the project and the man is a film director. He owns a film production company in the basement level and the woman’s museum of film begins on the street level and progresses with verticality. Her museum spaces are filled with her partner’s work and processes and is expressed and presented through different forms to stray away from the conventional way film is experienced.

You can see the transition of materials from the heavier, darker materials of steel and concrete that belongs to the museum and the lighter palette of wood and green space for the housing portion of the project allow for more natural light in. The building’s form is a loop that brings and lifts you up. Lastly, there is the film production space in the basement level to house a setting for filming that is more seclusive and relies on artificial light. With the massing studies below we can see the progression to the final design and organization of material, program and distribution of public and private program diagrammed.

Throughout the museum you are in spaces that are illuminated by artificial light and it is filled with the film makers’ work and it then gets broken down, lending different perspectives on the rhyme and reason. The various spaces offer reflection and as it nears its closing you are greeted by the frame that outlooks the neighborhood. Moving up the project, the museum walls dissolve and the relationship to the context is seen and felt as it is the threshold from museum space to residential space. The housing unit has windows allowing in more natural light to contrast the function and atmospheric qualities. The freight elevator fulfills this looped circulation and connects the private programs of the residential unit and the film production space.

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16 CAMPUS FOR GROWTH / NEWARK, NEW JERSEY / PROFESSOR CHRISTINA OSTERMIER A two person, studio project for Newark in the Fall semester of 2019. The proposal was to harmonize education and the workplace which aims to assist the younger demographic with a community school while having services and opportunities for the betterment of Newark as it is adjacent to Newark Penn Station, NJ Transit Headquarters and local businesses.

The school would act similar to charter/technical schools where the standard for academic performance is expected to be higher, but the majority of them are publicly funded. Most educational institutions are funded by local governments and the students are unfortunately treated as numbers. These schools focus on academics, health and social services, social emotional development, and community development.

Aside from school administrators and the board, it is families, students, and residents that can contribute to where the budget and resources goes into each school’s vision.

The incorporation of the workplace will harmonize with community schools and things they have to offer like tutoring, learning centers, mental health practitioners, community healing, audio and speech pathology, etc. Within the campus we also aim to help adults- young and old- with said social services as well as resources for career advancement. Additionally, there are offices that serve for career development to assist those in the community that can not and/or choose not to follow career paths that require higher education.

PROGRAMMATIC DIAGRAM LOBBY

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CO-WORKING SPACES

DENTAL OFFICES

LEARNING CENTER

URGENT CARE

I.T. & COMPUTER LABS

SPEECH PATHOLOGY OFFICES & THERAPY

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SUNKEN PLAZA

COMMUNITY SCHOOL

SOCIAL WORKER OFFICES

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GYMNASIUM & CAFETERIA

What inspired the projects’ fritted glass and painted metals were Newark’s street art and vibrant culture.

17 OFFICE SPACE 90,000 SQUARE FEET SCHOOL SPACE 53,200 SQUARE FEET LEVEL THREE

PUBLIC SPACE 46,500 SQUARE FEET

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18 RED REPRESENTS USERS WHO ARE IN THE PUBLIC AREAS, WORKING IN THE OFFICES, LOUNGING IN THE LIBRARY BLUE REPRESENTS USERS WHO ARE IN THE SCHOOL

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21 PHYSICAL MODEL & SITE VISIT PHOTOS

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Circulation of the building is direct as it is primarily circulation are escalators and elevators that take you through the museum and the interior form creates a language that can show the history of past, present and future in physical ways and with the traditional, stacked floor plates of exhibition halls that can display and experience art through different mediums and can also educate with what Queens was and can be. What connects to its end are unorthodox forms of dwellings which can be secluded for meditation and thought asides from those that have a duality to serve as spaces for acoustics and performances which call for gatherings. The connections between spaces are not solid correlations as the link between past and future are unpredictable but 1068 Museum proposes spaces that can enhance exclusive experiences between spaces to the public while also offering the choices to submerge yourself or not in the spaces contained and controlled within the interior and the exterior.

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PICTURE WINDOW

TRUSSES LINKED TO GALVANIZED STEEL WIRES

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DWELLINGS FACADES DIAMOND CAGE MULLION GLASS CURTAIN WALL

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THE MODEL IN SIMPLISTIC VOLUMES SHOWS ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE CONTEXT AND HOW IT FOLLOWS THE STREET WALL AS IT IS IN A DIRECT RELATION TO THE STREET AS WELL AS ALSO SHOWING THE LOCAL BUSINESSES, APARTMENTS, THE ELEVATED RAILWAY, VARYING CORPORATE AND INSTITUTIONAL PROGRAMS THAT SURROUND 1068 MUSEUM.

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SINGLE SINGLE PERSON OF AVERAGE HOUSEHOLDS SINGLE PERSON PERSON 33.9% 33.9% OF OF AVERAGE AVERAGE HOUSEHOLDS HOUSEHOLDS

AGE DEMOGRAPHICS TWO 31.8% OF TWO PERSONS OF AVERAGE HOUSEHOLDS TWO PERSONS PERSONS 31.8% OF AVERAGE AVERAGE HOUSEHOLDS HOUSEHOLDS EX FILANDA CO-HOUSING / ROME, ITALY / PROFESSOR IACOPO TESTI

I studied abroad in Rome in the Spring of 2020 for a short period due to COVID-19. I was sent back to New Jersey halfway through the semester but I was still completing the curriculum as the studio project was about co-housing in Roma. The brief was to restore and incorporate the Ex Filanda, a historic building that was once a Craft Institute, but in 2015 there were 3 fires that damaged the site and led to its abandonment.

AGE 18 - 29 : 30,000 AGE 30 - 44 : 60,000 AGE 45 - 59 : 80,000 AGE 60 - 75 : 60,000 AGE 76 and OLDER : 60,000

INDIVIDUAL INCOME AGE 0 - 29 : 10,000 euros AGE 30 - 44 : 20,000 euros

COMMON COMMON HOUSEHOLDS HOUSEHOLDS

AGE 45 - 59 : 30,000 euros

AGE 60 -PERSON 75 : 25,000 euros SINGLE 33.9% OF AVERAGE HOUSEHOLDS SINGLE PERSON 33.9% OF AVERAGE HOUSEHOLDS AGE 76 and OLDER : 25,000 euros TWO PERSONS 31.8% OF AVERAGE HOUSEHOLDS TWO PERSONS 31.8% OF AVERAGE HOUSEHOLDS

AGE UNEMPLOYMENT / REPURPOSING AGE DEMOGRAPHICS DEMOGRAPHICS

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AGE AGE 18 29 AGE 18 18 --- 29 29 ::: 30,000 30,000 AGE 30 44 AGE 30 --- 44 44 ::: 60,000 60,000 AGE 30 AGE AGE 45 59 AGE 45 45 --- 59 59 ::: 80,000 80,000 AGE AGE 60 75 AGE 60 60 --- 75 75 ::: 60,000 60,000

ROME’S QUALITY OF HEALTH

The location is along Viale Castrense where the project site’s adjacencies are the Aurelian Walls, a park over the walls, residential, commercial civic, institutional areas and the Archbasilica of St John Lateran and the Basilica di Santa Croce. There is an opportunity for restoration and urban regeneration in the area but costs of living are not desirable.

3RD HIGHEST LIFE EXPECTANCY SITE opportunity for career opportunities in a world where higher

Ex Filanda Co-housing proposes affordable housing and the

AGE AGE 76 and OLDER AGE 76 76 and and OLDER OLDER ::: 60,000 60,000

LOW QUALITY of WATER & AIR 19.11% WALK / CYCLE to WORK

education is an expensive commitment but the ways to make a living is constantly changing in a fast paced world. It would be interesting to see this play out in Rome, a place in the world on its own time and one in a post pandemic world.

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AGE AGE 30 44 AGE 30 30 --- 44 44 ::: 20,000 20,000 euros euros AGE AGE 45 59 AGE 45 45 --- 59 59 ::: 30,000 30,000 euros euros

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AGE AGE 60 75 AGE 60 60 --- 75 75 ::: 25,000 25,000 euros euros

AGE AGE 76 and OLDER AGE 76 76 and and OLDER OLDER ::: 25,000 25,000 euros euros

NUMBER (VII) : 11,000 AGE 18 -OF 29UNEMPLOYED : 30,000 AGE 18 - 29 : 30,000 RENOVATION BUILDINGS : 57.5% 60,000 AGE 30 - 44 :OF AGE 30 - 44 : 60,000

NEW AGE CONSTRUCTION 45 - 59 : 80,000OF BUIDLINGS : 42.5% AGE 45 - 59 : 80,000 AGE 60 - 75 : 60,000 AGE 60 - 75 : 60,000 AGE 76 and OLDER : 60,000 AGE 76 and OLDER : 60,000

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UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT // REPURPOSING REPURPOSING UNITS NUMBER NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED (VII) NUMBER OF OF UNEMPLOYED UNEMPLOYED (VII) (VII) ::: 11,000 11,000 RENOVATION RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS RENOVATION OF OF BUILDINGS BUILDINGS ::: 57.5% 57.5%

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NEW NEW CONSTRUCTION OF BUIDLINGS NEW CONSTRUCTION CONSTRUCTION OF OF BUIDLINGS BUIDLINGS ::: 42.5% 42.5%

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The exterior of the Ex Filanda would be restored to be the facade of the co-housing project which rests at the base but also acts as a threshold with the iconic, historic arch. The exterior design is a hybrid between the past and modern styles.

The section shows the relation between the co-housing project to the Aurelian Walls and the existing context within the site’s block. Ex Filanda Cohousing terraces to offer open space at different levels as it revolves around the central, inner courtyard which is shared with the adjacent building (commercial/residential use) to offer a visual connection to one another.

The roof top level offers views over the Aurelian Walls which has a park (Giardini Viale Carlo Felice) on the other end.

Elevators Terraces Stairs

There are three ways to enter and exit the project as there are public programs on the ground floor, two floors of residential space and the fourth floor being a space for creatives to create content in an ever-growing digital world. Ex Filanda Co-housing is sought to offer a space for those in the area to live and prosper.

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1 EMPLOYEE OFFICES & CAREER COUNSELING 2 TRAINING & CERTIFICATION SPACE 3 CONFERENCE ROOM 4 FITNESS / WELLNESS ROOM 5 MODULAR LOUNGE SPACE 6 RECEPTION 7 MAIL ROOM 8 RESTROOMS 9 COURTYARD WITH WATER FEATURE

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30 BRIDGING THE GAP / WENZHOU, CHINA / PROFESSOR RALPH SPENCER STEENBLICK

31 In the Fall of 2018 I studied abroad in China. The project’s site was in the Sanyang Wetlands. It has a numerous amount of islands connected by rivers.

The site has abandoned buildings and destroyed ones as well throughout. It is unfortunately not maintained and there are people that still live here with some small, local businesses.

The intention for Bridging the Gap is to provide entertainment and leisure where there is not much of this in the community. I connected one island to the other as one can not be accessed at all and so a foot bridge is implemented and the addition of boat docking on both islands. To traverse from one island to the other can be executed as you can drive, walk and/or take a boat to most islands. The bridge itself has a viewing platform underneath the foot bridge to have an outlook of the context at a different elevation. The bridge has gate frames through the whole journey to enhance the experience and there are several seating options at the beginning, middle and end.

The karaoke bar is on the north most point and at the end of the building are the karaoke rooms where each space gives you the backdrop of the Wetlands as you perform. There is also an outdoor garden and outdoor seating surrounding the bar. Lastly, there is the exhibition center at the end of the bridge which is situated on the isolated island.

AERIAL VIEW OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO ISLANDS

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The garden is on a platform lifting from the street level, as there are open green spaces and indoor structures similar to green houses with rows of vegetation. The karaoke bar has gestures where it visually connects back to the landscape even from the exterior as the foot bridge connects to the roof of the karaoke bar and walking across the bridge the exhibition center is an open structure too.

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THE ORGANIC SHELL HOUSES AN EXHIBITION CENTER FOR ART AND INSTALLATIONS

34 ROOSEVELT PAVILION / EDISON, NEW JERSEY / PROFESSOR HO KYUNG LEE The project aims to engage the existing demographic with the public and introduce a younger community with the addition to micro-housing. The project site is located in Edison, adjacent to the Menlo Park Mall. The mall is the biggest attraction and this side tends to be neglected with all its green space as there is a park (Roosevelt Park) north of the Residence at Roosevelt Park.

I had kept the existing structures and I wanted there to be this parasitic connection that can diversify their living experience and bring more incentive and attraction to be in and/or view nature. A space frame has been wrapped around the buildings to serve as a structure and the platforms for circulation, planting and nesting the four volumes.

These elevated spaces can offer activities to interact with nature and have a visual connection to the Roosevelt Park.

The four structures inserted and placed in and on the space frames are bath houses for a leisure and resting activity that frames Roosevelt Park and beyond. These are offered to the public with no access to the senior living building as the residents have their own space that can only used by the senior citizens. The public can access the new intervention by the foot bridge that has been implemented to offer different circulation and access points to the parasitic architecture. This foot bridge connects from Menlo Park Mall to this area and extends after the property site line to include the Roosevelt Park as part of the project.

The site is located in Edison, New Jersey and it is comprised of the Residence at Roosevelt Park (second circle) which is for affordable senior living. An abandoned building west of the residence (third circle) and the Roosevelt Care Centers (fourth circle) [x - shaped building] as it is for senior citizens who need to be assisted by caregivers and caretakers.

The project hopes to foster a diverse demographic as there is incentive to access this area past the mall. The west wing of the project introduces micro-housing to the site for a younger demographic. It is vital to create those experiences and connections as it would be a wide range for the age groups to populate the area. The additional green space and activities promote leisure in hopes to increase wellness and a sense of community in a welcoming space.

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VIEWS OF THE MICRO-HOUSING AND THE UNDERBELLY OF THE BATHHOUSES AND SPACE FRAME

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East Oakland’s newest development will provide much more than affordable housing and community resources. The project focuses on creating a new place to welcome and support people who seek opportunity and change in their community. By advocating and voicing the needs of East Oakland, we propose a Culture Hub that encourages the arts and culture of African American Diaspora. With its workspaces, library, makerspaces, black box theater and radiant atmosphere; we offer enough resources to young black organizations to recruit and expand on their businesses. Residents can grow their own produce and share the garden with local grocery store and teaching organizations about nutrition. The central courtyard welcomes live performances and local musicians to the community. The Culture Hub & Black Box Theater can promote cultural and perform to the community and be open to other local groups.

This was the second NOMA student design competition I had joined and participated in and my team and I had wanted to create a structure that would become iconic in scale on East Oakland and interact with the different modes of transportation (i.e. the train tracks, elevated railway and highway system) and the creek. The building’s form wraps around the central courtyard and activates the stream with the addition of a bridge across the land that we had turned into a sculpture park. The ground floor has public programs that offer services and local businesses. There are flexible workspaces on the floors above and residential units that are affordable housing and so work and leisure are within the same proximity, allowing flexibility and convenience. The vision of Activating Oakland is to preserve and inform those on culture and offer housing and work for East Oakland while strengthening the community.

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37 TAKE CARE FLATBUSH / FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN / COMPETITION As Vice President for my junior year, I and the Kean University Local NOMAS Chapter participated in our first NOMA student design competition. The project entails a mixed-use development that provides numerous programs for the residents and the diverse community of Flatbush. My team and I had wanted to focus on improving the wellness of the existing and new population that would be here.

We had wanted to promote physical activity with indoor programs such as an organic market and fitness center, a courtyard in between the two volumes that is open to the public and the existing house that was not to be taken down.

There are two volumes where one is a mixed age group (west), and the other is for senior citizens (east) and this building has an inner courtyard for when these senior citizens step outside their unit. We had aimed to create a space that can benefit the community on their physical and mental well-being.

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38 AQUA TOWER CASE STUDY / ARCH. 4403 BUILDING SYSTEMS I / PROFESSOR CAMILLE SHERROD 20

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39 PROPOSED SOLUTION TO THE AQUA TOWER’S ISSUE ON THERMAL BRIDGING Aqua designed by Studio Gang Architects is known for its curvaceous balconies but this feature and the addition to the thin concrete slabs lead to heat loss during the winter as warm/hot air escapes the building, vice versa, as well as the lack of consideration for thermal bridging. Jeanne Gang the profound founder of the firm acknowledges it was too difficult to find a strategy on adding thermal breaks on the interior and exterior concrete slabs which lead to energy loss and an increase in energy usage from the building as for example more and more air-cooling is implemented and installed to combat the varying temperatures.

Thermal bridging is an area or component of an object that has higher thermal conductivity than the sur-rounding materials which creates an opportunity for heat transfer with little resistance. When there is this movement of heat across an object it leads to energy loss which can lead to negative consequences such as higher utility bills. When the materials are not properly incorporated into a building to combat the thermal redux this will happen no matter the climate. Heat will always move towards the cold and as for example the interiors are heated with air conditioned spaces, the heat will leak to the cold outdoors. As well as the summer, where the heat trapped and wrapped around the exteriors will make its way into cooled, air conditioned spaces. Thermal breaking technology can be installed with-in the concrete slab at the balcony glazing interface where it separates the interior from the balcony space all the while implementing triple-glazed gasfilled curtain walls, which has a low U-value and in turn becomes more energy effiecient. This thermal bridging technology which is a high density expanded polystyrene thermal break which has slab water control to combat against moisture as the building can perspire due to the extend-ed concrete balconies during the more humid climates.

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43 Bending: M max = (43.29 lbs/ft) (22^2) / 8 = 2,619.045 ft-lb x (12 / 1,000) = 31.43 in-kip Fb = m/s = 31.43 in-kip / 43.89 in^3 = 0.72 ft-lb = 720 psi F(b) = m/s = F’(B) = 1,000 (CD) (CM) (Ct) (CL) (CF) (Cr) (Ci) = 1,000 x 1.25 = 1,250 psi > 720 psi GOOD F’B = (1,000)(1.25)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1) Shear: V = wl / 2 Vmax = 476.19 lbs = 476.19 lbs / 1,000 = 0.476 kips FV = 1.5 / A = 1.5 (476.19 lbs) / 19.88 in^2 = 36 psi FV = 180 x 1.25 = 225 psi 225 psi > 36 psi GOOD F’V = (180)(1.25)(1)(1) Deflection with live load: 5wl^4 / 384EIx = 5 (26 lbs/ft) (22^4) (12^3) / 384 (290.8 in^4) (1,600,000) = 0.20” 22’ x 12” = 264 / 240 = 1.1” 1.1” > 0.20” GOOD Deflection with dead + live load: 5wl^4 / 384EIx = 5 (43.29 lbs/ft) (22^4) (12in^3) / 384 (290.8 in^4) (1,600,000) = 0.4” 22’ x 12” = 264 / 180 = 1.47” 1.47” > 0.4” GOOD

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