Undergraduate Architectural portfolio_ Texas A&M University 2015-2019

Fernando Rosas Architecture Portfolio

Texas A&M University

2015 - 2019

Selected Works

Through my undergraduate architecture studies and my personal experience, I’ve been challenged to speculate on the potential of our future built environment. Throughout history, architecture has stood as the representation of society, reflecting its success, values and culture, creating a formalized distinction in behavior, identity and social interactions. But as I have learned in my academic experience, architecture pushes beyond the synthesis of surface qualities and serves as a means of solving problems through design.

My passion for architecture consists in the belief that, as a future architect, social responsibility is inevitable, therefore, I want to embrace the humanist values through social impact design. My deep interest in the exploration of social design arose from my personal experience, being raised in a marginalized and underrepresented community which lacks essentials such as medical, security and academic facilities.

To accomplish a successful social impact by design, we must use the power we hold as designers to give a voice to traditionally marginalized society.

Architecture as a profession consists of the adaptation and exploration of technology. Its change is the fundamental impermanent of design. For this reason, I believe that through exploration of digital fabrication and material experimentation, we as designers can take a leap towards the empowerment of the underrepresented.

Princeton University School of Architecture collaborative culture, along with its diverse interdisciplinary learning environment offers the ideal educational scenario where I can further advance my interest and understanding of architecture. I am specifically seeking to collaborate with Princeton’s renowned faculty, who focuses research on digital technologies, material experimentation and fabrication. I am particularly interested in Princeton’s multiple avenues for exploration of urbanism and its effect on architecture, namely in the work by professors such as Elizabeth Diller. In addition, the state-of-the-art facilitie such as the Embodied Computation Lab Will help transition my innovative theoretical knowledge into practical application that will provide the framework for me to explore the potential of social impact design.

Thank you for your consideration.

2 Content

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DALLAS MUSEUM OF DESIGN AND CONTEMPORARY ART

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LA PORTA VERDA DE SAN ANTONI

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INTRACTABLE GENTRIFICATION

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TEXAS AGGIE MEDICAL CLINICS

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COUNTERFACTUAL

Integrated Studio: Fall 2018

Barcelona Study Abroad: Fall 2017

Parametric Design Studio: Spring 2018

Texas A&M University BUILD: 2015 - 2017

Theory 4 Technology LAB: Spring 2019

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4 Dallas Museum of Design and Contemporary Art

DALLAS MUSEUM OF DESIGN AND CONTEMPORARY ART Texas A&M University: Fall 2018

Instructor: Kaichiro Aitani, Liliana Beltran, Shelley Holliday Integrated Studio: Collaboration with Anna Cook Contribution: Design, Rendering, Floor Plans, Sections, Fabrication This project draws on the principles of Gestalt psychology when applied to figure/ ground diagrams. Forms were drawn from the surrounding site of downtown Dallas, and then redefine and abstracted. They were then arranged into a grid system. Once these were finalized, they were translated to three dimensional forms through a series of extrusions, sweeps, and booleans.

With a library of twelve forms, inhabitable spaces were assembled to make up a museum and towers. The forms act as both positive and negative space within the building as a whole: the positives are inhabitable and the negatives were used to carve out spaces from a whole. These forms become precast concrete modules with a standard size of 15’x15’x15, which act as aesthetic, structure, and shading systems.

This becomes a museum with attached towers housing a hotel and offce spaces.

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Process Diagrams

Museum First Floor Plan 6 Dallas Museum of Design and Contemporary Art

Fabrication Models

Museum Fifth Floor Plan

Museum Third Floor Plan

West Elevation Fernando Rosas 7

Hotel Lobby

Museum Sculpture Exhibition

Longitudinal Section 8 Dallas Museum of Design and Contemporary Art

FORMED COPING

CONCRETE PARAPET

TAPERED ROOF INSULATION

BLACONY WOOD FINISH

TPO MEMBRANE ROOF

Roof Parapet Detail

RIGID STEEL FRAME

15 X 15 FACADE MODULE

TOWER GLAZING

Museum Courtyard View

INTERIOR FLOOR FINISH HOLLOW CORE FLOOR SLAB EMBED STEEL ANGLE CEILING DROP TILE

Tower Facade Detail

STEEL COLUMN FILLET WELD STEEL BASE PLATE GROUT ANCHOR BOLT STEEL REINFORCEMENT

CONCRETE MODUAL

Tower to Podium Detail

15’ X 7.5’ CONCRETE MODULE

ALUMINUM MULLION

GLAZING HOLLOW CORE FLOOR SLAB FINISH WOOD DECKING

HOLLOW CORE SLOP @ 2% PVC RAISED FLOOR PEDESTAL

GUARD RAILING

Transverse Section

Balcony Detail Fernando Rosas 9

10 La Porta Verda De San Antoni

LA PORTA VERDA DE SAN ANTONI Barcelona Architecture Center: Fall 2017

Instructor: Miguel Roldan, Zana Bosnic Study Abroad: Collaboration with Allen Garcia Contribution: Design, Rendering, Floor Plans, Section This project began as an analysis of our site located in the intersection of Barcelona’s Raval and Eixample. Our analysis revealed that the section of the Raval (where the site is located) had become a hub for immigration due to cheap housing an undesirable urban layout by locals and while undergoing a poor economy.

The Eixample, in contrast, experience a strong economy with a high influx of tourism and community interaction. We have attributed the stronger economy to the amount of public space both horizontally in the form of parks and plazas and vertically in the form of museums, markets and subways.

With our intervention of the site, we placed an emphasis on the interaction between the community by taking the typological features of a successful community such as the Eixample and superimposing them on our project. Integrating the typologies of public spaces led to our program to consist of green spaces on different levels of the building seamlessly connected to a City Public Library. The design of a complete public building is aim to reinvigorate the community by encouraging interaction between the community of the Eixample and the Raval.

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View Into The Void

View of La PortaVerda

First Floor Plan 12 La Porta Verda De San Antoni

Second Floor Plan

View of The Void

Perspective Section Cut

Thrid Floor Plan

Fourth Floor Plan Fernando Rosas 13

14 Intractable Gentrification

INTRACTABLE GENTRIFICATION Texas A&M University: Spring 2018 Instructor: Vahid Vahdat Parametric Design Studio Contribution: Individual Project

This project is an exploration of the visual effects of gentrification on the build environment via the aesthetics of disease.

Intractable Gentrification questions the role of architecture in the deregulation of financial markets, individualization and the shift away from state welfare provisions.

The initial purpose of the design studio was based on the renovation and improvement of an impoverished community of East Downtown Houston, by the introduction of a mix used high-rise tower. This projects sees the effects of this being the displacement of diversity, culture and people from what had been their community. The moment the tower breaks ground on this community, the tower becomes the epicenter of a disease that will ultimately spread throughout all East Side Houston. It becomes the visual representation of the failure of the broken social programs of neoliberal capitalism.

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Disease Spreading Process Diagrams

Transverse Section 16 Intractable Gentrification

Disease Core Transformation

Disease Variances

Tower CAT Scan

Residential Floor Plan

Hotel Floor Plan Fernando Rosas 17

The Tumor

Elevations

18 Intractable Gentrification

Exterior View, The Epicenter

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20 Texas A&M University: BUILD

TEXAS AGGIE MEDICAL CLINICS Texas A&M University: 2015 - 2017

BUILD A Student Organization Contribution: Foreman Command Team, Design + Construction Command Team And Student Surpervisor. Oversaw Design, Construction and Operations of Five Clinics BUILD is a student led organization aimed at unifying Texas A&M’s student body.

Our goal is to connect students from all organizations and all academic colleges of Texas A&M through the construction of Texas Aggie Medical Clinics. The premise of BUILD is to design and construct a habitable space through adaptive reuse of shipping containers. Our long-term vision is to build and send out portable medical clinics around the world in honor of those who lost their lives in the collapse of the Aggie Bonfire.

During my time as a leader and supervisor I was in the fore front of design and construction of five medical clinics that currently serving in Jordan, Dominican Republic, Cambodia and Bolivia. The Process in which the medical clinics came to fruition was through interdisciplinary collaboration and with impeccable communication throughout the organization and with the 2000+ untrained volunteers.

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Construction Site

Triage

Examination

Shipping Containers/Pre-Medical Clinics

Laboratory

Frame Installation

Treatment

Longitudinal Section

Interior Finishes + Medical Equipment 22 Texas Aggie Medical Clinics

Sheathing Installation

Triage

Finish Medical Clinics Exterior

Examination

Laboratory

Medical Clinics In Dominican Republic

Treatment

Passage

Floor Plan

Corrugated Metal + Wood Frame Fernando Rosas 23

24 Counterfactual

COUNTERFACTUAL Texas A&M University: Spring 2019

Instructor: Juris Putteneers, Gabriel Esquivel T4T LAB: Collaboration with Hans Steffes, Aaron Scheffield, Rebecca Romero Contribution: Design, Rendering, Floor Plans, Chunk Cut, Diagrams Final Deliverable: https://vimeo.com/379520731 Counterfactuals, or discourses concerned with the alternative outcomes of situations, have been foundational to architectural discourse over the past century. They have been of particular interest in the postmodern, neo-liberal context in which movements like modernism and speculative realism have emerged from. Counterfactuals allow the architect to speculate about what society would look like if the ideals behind the discourse were unilaterally accepted. Epistemological questions asked through the lens of counterfactuals allow us to wonder how our experience can justify thought and allow us to talk about remote possibilities without the limitations of our immediate episteme.

These speculations raise very serious questions about why we accept our immediate reality and what is to be done about it. Counterfactuals hold a particular allure to architects as they blend fact and fiction, justifying any speculation as long as it purports a realist or scientific basis. The critical issue facing speculative realism is the distinction between fiction and lies. Fictions are told with the understanding that they are not truth and are intended to convey some moral, lesson, or hope. Lies are the blatant misrepresentation of reality in order to achieve some end, or convince others of the projects validity. While science and fiction are not incompatible they are not replacements for each other, thus the very subtle difference between science fiction and fiction science. This is the danger of counterfactuals, their inherent ungroundedness makes them easier to accept as truth, especially when engulfed in a fire hose of untruth and propaganda. When immersed in such fictions, all this project can be is counterfactual.

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Section Cut

Vectorization

Exterior Repairing Material 26 Counterfactual

Replicating + Repairing Material Processing

Floor Plan Cut

Voxelizer + Smoothing

Security Camara loading Bay View

Security Camara Lobby View Fernando Rosas 27

View Of The Center

28 Counterfactual

The Chunk

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30 Curriculum Vitae

Fernando Rosas

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FERNANDOGrand ROSAS Prarie, Texas

Fernando.roasa95@gmail.com Fernando.roasa95@gmail.com

Grand Prairie, Texas

AWARDS

EDUCATION 2015 - 2019 Texas A&M University

-College Station, Tx -Bachelors of Enviromental Design -Minor Architectural Fabrication and Product Design -3.66 GPA

2017 Barcelona Architecture Center -Barcelona, Spain -Study Abroad Semester -4.0 GPA

EXPERIENCES 2018 - Present Corgan Inc, Architectural Intern

-Dallas, Tx -Assist in phases of schematic design, design development, construction documentation and construction administration -Develop shematic and construction documents -Design building facades and created renders

2016 - 2017 Metric Concrete Services, Laborer -Wylie, Texas

-Assisted on the supervision of concrete pour

2012 - 2015 Pate Jones Paving, Laborer

-Kennedale, Texas -Interpret and execute construction documents -Set level points for excavation, foundation and concrete form -Worked on concrete and asphalt paving

INVOLVEMENT 2018 - 2019 Career Fair Committee -Joint responsability in the organization of the Annual College of Architecture Career Fair

2018 - 2019 Freedom By Design Committee

-Foreman on the construction of ramp and accessible path for a paraplegic to have full accessibility of her house

2015 - 2017 BUILD, Foreman and Design Command Teams

-Cordinated the construction of the Aggie Medical Clinics by adaptive reuse of shipping containers.

-Oversaw a group of 10 student supervisors and 20 volunteers -Worked on the construction of 5 Medical Clinics

2015 - 2019 Latino Males United, Mentor

-Organization focus on professionalism and cultural awareness -Mentors guides mentee through his transition to Texas A&M -We establish a foundation for personal growth and success

2015 - 2019 American Institute of Architecture Students

-Mentor of freshman and sophmore students in architecture -Member of Freedom by Design and Career Fair committees

2018 2017 2017 2017 2017 2017 2015 2015

- Foundation of Former Students Scholarship - Global Oportunity Fund Scholar - Study Abroad Scholarship - J. Malon Southerland’ 65 Leader Scholarship - Herbert C. Hale’ 57 Endowment - George M. & Mary B. Lewis Merit Scholarship - Dallas A&M Club Award Scholarship - Regents Scholar

SKILLS - Rhinoceros - Cinema 4D - Blender - Houdini - Revit - AutoCAD - Octane - VRay - Lumion - Photoshop - Illustrator - InDesign

RECOGNITIONS 2019 Axiom Issue #16

-Dallas Museum of Design and Contemporary Art

2019 Student-Produced_Projects in the PostAnthropocene Exhibition, Houston -Counterfactual

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