Architecture Portfolio Gavin Rea
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WORK
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA — Shop Technitian— 9/21 - Present I currently work part time as a technitian at the architecture shop while studying as a graduate student. I assist other studnets with modelmaking and fabrication, including lasercutting, CNC programming and machining and general woodshop tasks.
Kiwico, Mountain View, CA — Product Designer — 4/19 - 6/21 Designed educational toys and kits at Kiwico. I have done several products for shop in electronics, chemistry and botany and currently work on the oldest subscription toy line, Eureka Crate.
Jupiter Research, Los Altos, CA — Product Design Consultant — 6/17 - 2/18 Developed and 3D Printed a housing for a USB radio and sourced manufacturers. Currently 3D modeling and manufacturing a remote operated microscope payload for the waveglider robot
Open Source Technology Institute, Palo Alto, CA — Design Consultant — 9/18 - 3/19
EDUCATION
University of California - Los Angeles, Detroit, MI -- Architecture 2021 - 2024 Masters Architecture
Completed a design analysis of the US election process. Currently designing a voting and services app for Elections Ontario
College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI -- Industrial Design 2015 - 2018 BFA Product Design
. Gemetti Model Art, San Francisco, CA — Modelmaker — 9/18 - 11/18 Designed and fabricate appearance and engineering models for clients, including SF architecture firms and Tesla.
SKILLS
Proficient Advanced
Techshop, Redwood City, CA — Rapid Prototype Instructor — 6/17 - 9/17 Taught lasercutting, 3D printing and 3D modeling to members, as well as helped design and troubleshoot projects. I also instructed the STEAM summer camp ages 8-14
DISTINCTION
UCLA Solar Decathalon Project Manager CCS Chapter Vice President Designs featured on Designboom and Uncrate
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Shook Design, Palo Alto, CA — Product Design Intern — 5/15 - 9/15 Worked on the industrial design team completing multiple projects, including an electric scooter and wearable camera.
Ballona Wetlands Arboretum This design was completed during my second studio in the UCLA Masters Architecture Program. The brief was for an arboretum facility to be located in the restored Ballona Wetlands just south of Marina Del Rey with a program of a conditioned botanical garden space, outdoor living collection and research and education wings. The studio examined the architectural concept of Column+, the use of columns beyond simple vertical structural members. I chose a specific precedent of the Palazo de Lavoro by Pierre Luigi Nervi, who proposed a series of mushroom column with a tapered cross trunk topped by radial I-beams supporting a steel roof with glass covered seams in between to let in light and an exterior curtain wall. I explored variations in the initial square grid layout in plan and section as well as column variations in grasshopper
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Fremont CottonWood
Western Sycamore
Red Willow
Valley Oak
Sandbar Willow
Creek Dogwood
Cactus
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Live Oak
White Alder
California Buckeye
High Desert
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Big Leaf Maple
Nuttail Scrub Oak
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Boardwalk
Cactus Bloom
Classroom Black Walnut
Black Cottonwood
Perrenial
Hornleaf Cherry
California Laurel
Perrenial
Botanical Collection
Learning
Research H e r b a r i u m Bamboo Forest
Walking Path
Site Plan
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G r ound Plan
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Design I maintain the column-roof module while varying heights, profiles and sizes to create a continuously varying landscape housing different types of spaces. This was achieved by turning the regular square roof into a cross shape with circular cutouts at all corners which make large perforations when the modules are joined together, creating space for planting and allowing light into the structure. Interiors are defined by a minimal curtain wall not at the roof exterior but along the line of the column, preserving the visual connection and blurring the boundary of the space.
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Highline
Botanical Garden
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Rainwater Drains to Column Center
Outdo r Ter aces Research and
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Particle Filtration Below Planter
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Ir igates Planter Downslope
Exces Water Stored at Bot om
Filtration System
Parking
Exploded Isometric
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Tenka House Tenka house started as a project for my senior industrial design studio working with Cass Community Housing to develop affordable tiny houses for local low income residents. I initially was inspired by cold Detroit winters to make a greenhouse design. After graduating, I further developed the project into a prefab system of container modules that could be configured in a variety of orientations and sizes. The project evaluates housing through a product design lens and takes cues from modern product aesthetics and simplicity: clean hidden fastener design large rounds and chamfers. The pile foundation removes the need for extensive site work and allows the house to float above the landscape with minimal impact.
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Venice Beach Gateway
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Form Exploration This was the first studio in the UCLA Masters Architecture program and was intended as a formal introduction to architecture through the medium of paper folding. The first half of studio was spent exploring form with physical paper models. I focused on continuous curved folds and their ability to form structure and define space while avoiding impossible double-curved geometries. We then adapted our forms to a public restroom facility to be placed along the Venice beach strip. My goal for the site was to link the city street to the beach with the facility as a gateway between, and created an arch by cutting the middle out of a folded S form. The building further integrates into the landscape with a raised path and bridge within the arch and a perpendicular tunnel cutting down into the landscape beneath it.
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Folded Construction Techniques
Bridge: Join base from Concave Form with railings separate convex forms
Trimmed S Curve: modify curves on side to intersect flat surface
Double S Curve: Mirror opposing curves to prevent impossible geometry
Simple S Curve: create positive and negative curvature on either side
Double Curve Arch: S curve with middle taper to allow curvature reversal
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Beverly Glen Apartments I started this project while living in LA and noticing an interesting vacant lot on my commute to school everyday. The lot is sloping and located in a low-rise condo neighborhood with several courtyard buildings in the Spanish style. My goal was to design a similar courtyard building with Spanish elements but a more modern, angular language which conforms to the angular back property line The asymmetrical massing creates unique apartment layouts with at least 1 angled wall creating an aesthetic and organizational element. A pool sits in the middle of the courtyard brining nature into the space and reflecting the angular form of the building A public patio area sits out front enclosed in an angular metal trellis, screening occupants from the sun and street.
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Stepped Balconies
Remove volume to allow light into path
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Central Path Cut
Recess to create courtyard
Angle Cut to Meet Street
Chamfer Front ends to open to street and enlarge balconies
Add front patio and Courtyard pond to match shapes
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