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Felipe Cruz 2025

Portfolio

The Wave

Course: Arch 504

Year: Winter 2025

Professor: Maaike Post

Project: Rainier Beach Water Quality

Field Lab

Location: Seattle, WA

The mission is to cultivate sustainable food through aquaponics while restoring water quality and supporting Chinook salmon in Lake Washington. By integrating education, community engagement, and accessible waterfront spaces, aimed to raise awareness of food security and environmental stewardship. This will be accomplished through a water treatment center that is also a aquaponics center.

Envelope Assembly:

1. Start with a rectangular massing. 2. The rectangle is cut by the park and parking lot.

3. Henderson Street and the lake both carve away on the sides of the massing.

4. The lake comes once again to carve the roof. stopping mid-way.

Level 2

Level 3:

Structure Order:

Longitudinal Section:

1. Foundation, Shear wall, & Core

Columns

Girders

Beams

Decking

6. Sawtooth Roof Steel Frame

Facade

The Bridge

Course: Arch503

Year: Fall 2024

Professor: Bradley Khouri

Project: Mixed-Use Multi Family

Housing

Design a mixed-use, multi-family urban building from concept to schematic design, addressing site context, accessibility, zoning, sustainability, and community needs through thoughtful spatial, structural, and environmental strategies. This mixed used building is located within Rainier Beach.

Massing Model:

Rainier Ave Street View

The Interior Lounge

Intersection Street View

SHendersonSt

The Bridge Roof

Site Area (SF) : 52,422 SF

Max FAR 3.75 (SF)

Proposed Bldg Area: 193,399

Proposed FAR 3.68

Unused area: 3,183

Zoning NC3P-55 (M)

Allowed Building Height: 55’

Building Height: 55’

10 total Type A Bedrooms

Rainier Beach Community Center

Bainbridge Island

Course: Arch400

Year: Fall 2023

Professor: Alicia Daniels Uhlig

Project: Creative District Incubator

Location: Bainbridge Island, WA

Through the design of an incubator building and public realm on an infill site in the heart of Winslow, using the AIA Framework for Design Excellence to explore how the built environment influences environmental justice, performance, and supports the community’s long-range vision for the future of the island.

Clay Model For Small Amenity

Musical Habitat:

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND CONTEXT MAP

Exterior Perspective

Interior Perspective

Ariel View

Massing Model

Process

Level 1

Level 2

Roof Plan

Section A | Looking North

Section B | Looking West

Little Lake Village

Course: Arch302

Year: Spring 2023

Professor: Junichi Satoh

Project: Leftover Spaces

Location: Seattle, WA

Collaboration with: Faith Fullerton and Kayden Viacrucis

Little Lake Village is a new approach to remedy Seattle’s housing crisis. The vision prioritizes collective ownership, self-sustainability, and walk ability to create an egalitarian neighborhood welcoming a diverse array of residents and visitors.

Thesis: By fostering a space where individuals of various social strata can freely interact and build a shared collective identity, a community can be created that promotes egalitarian ideals and values while breaking down socio-economic barriers.

EXISTING SITE CONDITION

- Underutilized parking lot

- Abandoned maintenance garage building

- Gated tiny home village with militaristic unit organization

PHASE ONE

- Fence removed

- Three permanent homes established by residents

- Organic path established

- Beginnings of a common house and community garden.

PHASE TWO

- Greenhouse created via adaptive reuse project

- Commons form as tiny homes migrate or upgrade

-Farm-to-table restaurant

PHASE THREE

- All homes developed, providing the groundwork for phase four (above) upon SLU Light Rail Station opening

WHY CUSTOM MODULES?

Appropriate agency over one’s home encourages humanistic growth, promoting the formation of robust, thriving communities.

By giving a sense of permanence and variety to social housing, the architecture maintains a transient, neighborly feeling of the community with higher density and without risk of demolition.