Undergraduate Portfolio | Hazel Villena

Hazel Villena Undergraduate Portfolio 2019

To my mother.

For I could not have been able to do what I love without her.

Every time I go to my aunt’s house I sit by the side window in the staircase. The way the window filters sunlight and this hits my skin makes me feel content. I believe architecture is about that, making people smile with beautiful spaces to do the most ordinary things in. Also the not so ordinary, of course, but if I can achieve to make someone enjoy the most simple action in their lives like walking through a path or looking up through architecture, then I know I must be on the right track. In the following pages I will ask you to look at my work which follows the themes of lighting and playful design.

Hazel Villena

2019 TIMBER IN THE CITY COMPETITION

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THE TIMBERLINE QUEENS, NEW YORK

Collaborated with: Will Cao, Kosta Sevic Type: Mixed Use (Residential, Commercial, Health, Educational) Duration: 20 weeks Year: 2019 Class: Studio V + Studio VI Software:Rhinoceros, Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator

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THE TIMBERLINE

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Timber rising in Queens

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THE TIMBERLINE Queens, NY, USA

Just a bridge away from Manhattan is Queens where high-rises are still spread out wanting to become something of its own. Perhaps Timber.

The project sits right by the bridge and seeks to cohesively exist with its surroundings.

Timberline is a multi-program and mixed-use project that prepares for integration and change within Long Island City. The design is driven by three initial precedents; site geometry, framing views of the City skyline, and uninterrupted passage through the site.

The implicit strategies involved tapering and pinching the masses to create a diagonal causeway through the site and out to the East River. The team wanted to create moments for viewing, interaction and rest between each end of the building because of the narrow site proportions. Manipulating the topography and circulation levels soften the abrupt change in building height and capture framed views of the Manhattan skyline.

Timber is the structural backbone for the building, CLT bearing walls spine the diagonal mass. In order to build higher; using mass timber, we have designed a vertical truss structure which is cross-braced with steel cables for reinforcement. The adjacent bridge influences aesthetic and serves as a datum for the design layers; materiality is exposed throughout the structure and connections between materials are celebrated.

The project addresses timber’s structural ability and is a pioneer for future heavy timber developments. It takes a standing effort to foster healthy environments within the built community.

THE TIMBERLINE

2019 TIMBER IN THE CITY COMPETITION

Site Analysis

Site Plan

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THE TIMBERLINE

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Views as Mass Shaper

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THE TIMBERLINE

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WELLNESS CENTER + RESIDENTIAL SIDE SECTIION

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Residential Kitchen

Typical Bedroom

Typical Unit

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THE TIMBERLINE

Wellness Center Corridor

Climbing Wall

Fitness Room

THE TIMBERLINE

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EDUCATION CENTER SECTION

THE TIMBERLINE

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THE TIMBERLINE

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Greenhouse

View from Walkway towards East

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THE TIMBERLINE

2019 TIMBER IN THE CITY COMPETITION

Inside Education Center

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THE TIMBERLINE

2019 TIMBER IN THE CITY COMPETITION

Indoor Play Axonometric

Indoor Play

Education Center

Art classroom

INTERNSHIP PROJECT: SUMMER 2018

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REIMAGINING THE BAYOU HOUSTON, TX

Duration: 11 weeks Produced For: HKS Architects Responsible For: All Material Shown Year: 2018 Status: In development Software: 3DSMax, Revit, Photoshop

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REIMAGINING THE BAYOU Houston, Texas, USA

Brays bayou is a much less popular one than its distant neighbor Buffalo bayou. Brays bayou is located south of the Texas Medical Center, the biggest group of hospitals in the world. However, its potential for further development is yet to be discovered.

Brays bayou has been for its whole time an edge of the Texas Medical Center. It presents itself as the defining element of urban development between its south and north side.

Instead of being a rupture in the TMC urban fabric, Brays bayou has the potential of being the core of its fragmented surroundings.

Why does no person in the TMC workforce live here? The addition of simple things could be game-changing for this scenario such as trees providing shade along the edges, thus, fostering pedestrian activity.

South of the bayou, there is a lost, disorganized urban area that does not conceive to have a relationship with the TMC or the adjacent high-end housing on its left side. Why does Brays bayou need to be only an edge? Why can’t south of the bayou be as prominent and attractive as its north side?

More than just a stream of water, the plan for Brays bayou is to be the node in the middle of this new envisioned district that connects the south TMC side, the bayou itself, the south side of the bayou (mixed land + MDA) and the left adjacent area of high housing. It strives to be a community.

Targeted research During the research phase, we analyzed the zones that had the combination of various conditions that coudl end up being favorable for the modular housing adaptation and the linkage to Brays bayou.

REIMAGINING THE BAYOU

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Unifying Sides Brays bayou represents a huge rupture between the Texas medical center and the south of it but it is through interventions and amenitites that this edge starts becoming a node for both.

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Arrangement 01 INTERNSHIP PROJECT: SUMMER 2018

Arrangement 02 With a more intense focus on housing, Brays bayou acts more as interventations along the housing program rather than being the whole. It serves as the landscaping around housing and community.

Arrangement 03 Housin is represented as the focus once again, however, this time the plans for Brays bayou park is around the program accompanied by amenities in order to organize program radially.

REIMAGINING THE BAYOU

Brays bayou park tries to encapsule the whole park instead of isolating it just on one area. The aim is to extend beyond both ruptures and act as the element that contains it all.

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What are the challenges?

The hard edges along Brays bayou are some of the main wide roads that act as spines of Houston.

Scale contrast As a consequence of Brays bayou acting as rupture, the development on the northern side has been exclusive.

Segmentation The lack of attention to the hard edges separating the areas result in three completely urban languages.

REIMAGINING THE BAYOU

INTERNSHIP PROJECT: SUMMER 2018

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MD Anderson

Vision Sketching Both the bayou and its surroundings are acting like hard edges, in order to blur these, the incorporation of wider sidewalks, greenery and commercial allow a friendlier pedestrian circulation.

REIMAGINING THE BAYOU

INTERNSHIP PROJECT: SUMMER 2018

Brays bayou

DESIGN STUDIO IV: FALL 2018

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JACKSONVILLE CULINARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE, FL

Type: Educational Duration: 10 weeks Class: Studio IV Year: 2018 Software: Revit, Rhinoceros, Photoshop., Illustrator, Enscape

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CULINARY ARTS INSTITUTE - PLAY Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Downtown Jacksonville is an area that has potential to be more than just a place where people go work and abandon after office hours. The lack of landmarks and amenities opportunities opens up the possiblity to change the panorama.

acksonville can easily be a place where fun things happen. Where people want to be. The lack of workforce living downtown or hanging out after work contributes to Jacksonville’s innactivity. Perhaps the whole scenario cannot be changed completely but new architecture ideals and approaches can start adressing certain areas of the city and creating lively pockets of urban scene. Such lively activity can happen in many ways outside architecture, however, architecture is the first step to an urban re-design long term.

One of those lively urban pockets can be the Jacksonville Institute for the Culinary arts. Taking fun (play) and the idea of enjoying the architectural conditions, this building combines three program aspects: retail, residences and the culinary school. The archtiecture within the building seeks to engage the users with each space they go through and feel a cohesive experience in a subjective way. Daylighting, people- watching, visually connecting program spaces and in some areas, being a kid again, These are some of the ways the building attempts to create this effect in people. It attempts to be a place that can make you smile, look up or play (whatever that means to you).

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As a new urban element, the cuinary school aims to spark change in the surrounding areas. Also, it tries to attract users outside the working hours to foster activity in Jacksonville.

As people approach the site, there are ways in order to ascend through the buildig: from the two strees: one vehicular predominant and one pedestrian. As well as the common one.

In order to compensate for the built portion, there are green spaces for all three programs to take advantage to and attract community members.

The two ways the site can be approaches are through Forsyth and Adams. Varying in flow and approach.

Site Shaper The Culinary arts institute attempts to foster the pedestrian flow through its surroundings which hopes to spark the community activity and therefore generate more lively pockets around through time.

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Common Garden

Spaces for them The experience in the Jacksonville Culinary Arts Institute focuses on making each space an experience through a combination of lighting and asscension. Primarily vertical and narrow, the school posseses different view perspectives in which there is connectivity without it being explicit.

Many of the spaces within the school, common area and the commercial side consist of the uniqueness of every gaze looking up to the architecture. Each opening and element that allows to look down makes the circulation and use of space more dynamic and pleasing.

At the same time, the community spaces spark joy and relaxation with activities such as simple seating, gardening and the incorporation of a slide in order to give a non-conventional transition between floors.

Looking up to library

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Entrances - Adams St

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Key-Lighting openings

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Playing is not just for kids One of the main tactic in which the culinary institute attacks the lack of activity and flows around it is by incorporating innovative ways of making the simple fun. What about a playground for all ages?

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Inside demo kitchen

DESIGN STUDIO IV: FALL 2018

Site plan + main amenities Main program Culinary courtyard School courtyard Retail entrance Culinary entrance Slide

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As the users and visitors walk through the entrance, they are attracted inmediately by the demo classes on both sides. Both are fully glazed and facing the public.

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Massing Exploration

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DESIGN STUDIO IV: FALL 2018

Along the process of exploration, there were three main models that represent what the institute of Culinary arts seeks: Being inviting, discovering and a shaper for its context.

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Residences + Retail + Transition Space + Culinary Institute

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Hanging kitchen cubes detail

DESIGN STUDIO IV: FALL 2018

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People-watching The school focuses of the experience of seen and being seen in strategical points. For instance, there are kitchen cubicles on one side of the building forming a live facade.

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lecture class student kitchen bathrooms (school) culinary stairs chocolate lab library hall

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DESIGN STUDIO III: SPRING 2018

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DAFFIN ECO PARK SAVANNAH, GA

Type: Landscape Duration: 10 weeks Class: Studio III Year: 2018 Software: Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator

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DAFFIN ECO PARK AND STADIUM

Park systems Geo-thermal energy

Photovoltaic skin

Water collector + biodiversity

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DAFFIN ECO PARK Savannah, Georgia, USA

Daffin park is located outside downtown Savannah in the most residential area in midtown. Compared to the more famous Forsyth Park in downtown, Daffin Park is massive but barely gets half visitors of its neighboring park.

How can Daffin be activated? Upcycled?

What is important at daffin when upcycling comes into place? as already stated, the idea of a cohesive system that is able to integrate the varied sectors of the community through multi-purpose spaces that foster health, family and environment awareness. integrating the sectors in the community leads to the desire of eradicating the present segregation between races that often create a partitioned scenario at the park.

Here is where design comes into place and seeks to at least decrease it as much as it can through planned tactics combined with program. Followed by this, thinking about how the spaces are distributed all through the site is extremely important, for they will promote and serve the community around it according to the different uses they can make of them. added to this, the design wants to and needs to take into consideration what happened at the site before and respect the history behind it, integrating old with new.

Finally, daffin park centers on the principle of nature’s cycle in terms of how the architecture influences everything around it. as we design the stadium and everything that was not there originally, it should serve its purpose for the current users and still serve a post purpose for the future generations, which does not necessarily include the mere program but rather, an integration into the environment through harmless materials or an opportunity for the future community to retrieve from this. in the end, it should all be about taking from the roots of everything only to be able to give back in the best way possible to the place that hosted the architecture for so long.

Giving back to the community In order to be more than just a stadium for a couple of games yearly, the stadium merges its philosophy with the landscaping amenities focusing on giving back its resources and preserving its site.

Aquaponics system

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Amenities Usage DESIGN STUDIO IV: FALL 2018

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The underneath of the stadium structure allows for other activities to happen throughout the year like the farmer’s market.

Inside the stadium, the experience is like any other great one, except this one gathers energy during the day.

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Axonometric site plan

DESIGN STUDIO IV: FALL 2018

DAFFIN ECO PARK AND STADIUM

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A park for everyone During the research phase, we analyzed the zones that had the combination of various conditions that coudl end up being favorable for the modular housing adaptation and the linkage to Brays bayou. .

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Stadium + courts

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Designing by AI

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Exploded stadium axonometric The stadium is made out of fly ash concrete which has less toxic chemicals than the traditional one.

It is structured with recyled beams for the seating areas and louvered with local wood.

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Water collector

Wind tower

DAFFIN ECO PARK AND STADIUM

Smog filters

ELIMINATING LONELINESS COMPETITION

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ALLEGORY OF LONELINESS SITELESS

Type:Conceptual Duration: 2 days Year: 2019 Software: Rhinoceros, Photoshop, Illustrator

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ALLEGORY OF LONELINESS

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“Happiness is only real when shared”

ALLEGORY OF LONELINESS

One of the things that people are most afraid of saying out loud is that they feel lonely. People treat loneliness as a social stigma when in the end, every person on earth will feel lonely at least once in their lifetime- why can’t we start ​humanizing​ it a little bit more?

Allegory of Loneliness​seeks to embody this stigma and turn it around in the most exaggerated way. It does not try to mask itself and it surely does not try to hide. The design intends to materialize the opposite of the stigma and demonstrate that it is a place for everyone: the current lonely and not-now-lonely. The edification rises in the city of London wanting to be an icon for loneliness and an overall reflective experience from ground to sky. An allegory.

Coming from the ground plaza, you enter through the lobby and hop onto an elevator.

This is when it rises and starts embodying loneliness- as you ascend, you have a wall in front of you that gets darker, like a gradient, and finally becomes black when arrived to the first level of the dome. There, people are placed into groups and will stick to them throughout the experience, hoping that connection between them can happen through interaction and therefore, a moment/spark of joy.

Inside, the levels make an allegory of the factors that influence loneliness: lack of self-regulating emotions (​maze​: confusing spaces), lack of empathy(​bootcamp​ :working together) and vulnerability(​sky-gaze​: vastness). Each presents a challenge to its corresponding factor for people to see loneliness from a different and fun scope. Through this, design can only hope to make loneliness look like a much smaller monster and spark a moment of joy. ​Even​if it is just for a second.

DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS III: FALL 2017

REIMAGINING THE BAYOU

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JAMES TURRELL | NODE DENVER, CO

Type: Residential + Commercial Location: Denver, Colorado Duration: 10 weeks Class: Design Fundamentals III Year: 2017 Software: Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator

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INTERNSHIP PROJECT: SUMMER 2018

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JAMES TURRELL NODE Jacksonville, Florida, USA

James Turrell is an American artist primarily concerned with Light and Space.

Turrell is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, a natural cinder cone crater located outside Flagstaff, Arizona. For this project, he serves as our client and inspiration, for his work plays with the user perspective of reality.

The goal was to implement a residential and exhibit space into the Railroad Museum taking light artist, James Turrell, as the client for both. The spaces are divided into public and private, thus, work with the existing site implementing the original parking lot in order to transform it into a direct main entry for the exhibit space as well as delineating a path for private circulation for Turrell’s residential area. It also takes into cosideration the existing architecture of the museum itself as part of the experience with the new.

The whole project centers in enhancing the senses in order to have full interaction with the architecture. We often use our eyes to experiment what is around us, focusing only in what we see. With Node (exhibit area),however, the architecture merges the visual, tactile and the hearing senseses in order to create a experiential premise to the rooms in which Turrell’s artwork would be exhibited.

On the other hand, the residence sector focuses on James Turrells’ routine and personal traits, making it a space that is appropriate for each activity such as studio time for his artwork, studying the sky and filling the house with filtered light that adds to the mundane tasks which become joyful and full of experience. It is all about lighting in Node.

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DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS III: FALL 2017

Observatory + Living - 2nd floor

Residence threshold

Master bedroom

Lighting meets walls Having James Turrell as the client emphasizes the detail in openings throughout the architecture.

Most of the spaces carry the concept of filtered light and threshold.

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JAMES TURRELL NODE

DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS III: FALL 2017

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Lighting meets walls These studies were critical for determining which architectural conditions each space of the exhibit and residence could take. From these we draw the human experience.

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Light transition In the exhibit space it is all about how you move through the spaces and the break in between. This is how the architecture and James Turrell’s work work together and enhance the experience.

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DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS III: FALL 2017

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Transition through spaces From the moment the user gets to the entrance all the way to the private redisence of James Turrell, light is designed to penetrate the darkest spaces of the architecture.

DESIGN STUDIO I: FALL 2017

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30x30 RESIDENCE ITHACA, NY

Type: Residential / Conceptual Location: Ithaca, New York Duration: 10 weeks Class: Studio I Year: 2018 Software: Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator

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30x30 PTSD BASED RESIDE

30x30 bases off the ability to capture the essence of the client and his PTSD background in the way the architecture unfolds.

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30x30 residential control Ithaca, New York, USA

When there is only a cube of 30x30 dimensions to work with on a residential concept, each space must be thought out carefully for the client. 30x30 focuses on the beneficial properties architecture could have when creating moments in the residence of a PTSD affected client.

In which way architecture traces who we are today? 30x30 is a cube that needs to be carved out to create the spaces that will revolve around the client’s life. In this case, the project focused on capturing the tranquility and safeness the client felt when in control of his surroundings and family. As part of a traumatic experience that reveals in loss, the client is left out with two kids that are at their peak of development. Coming back from a Manhattan chaotic environment for someone with maniatic traits, how can architecture address this?

The architecture could almost be called micro-living, except it is quite not. With such a small space to live in, 30x30 serves more of a retreat residence for an expected time, for the client will need the peace and energy the beautiful scenery of Ithaca forrests provide. The residential concept focuses on openings and open floor plan that will allow views from anywhere the client is. As a conceptual representation of the client’s maximim control, there is a core in the middle of the residence that can be seen as the more paused version of an elevator. The lift can be operated manually and allows for precise level gazing. The overall concept comes sums up in each space a person lives in and how the memories and traits shapes that space differently to every person that lands there. There is something beyond the four walls you are in.

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The architecture within In the polysemic drawing above one can have different interpretations. The concept of this project is based on the memories and moments that are tied to an architectural space and how through time the architecture shapes us as well.

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The initial plane study focused on how the circulation connected levels vertically and horizontally.

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Massing was all about articulating where the void was gonna happen in order to create architectural spaces.

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Detailing was defined by louvering the openings to play in favor with the orientation and program.

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Kit of parts The 30x30 solid was carved out and divided into different elements in order to give each element group a different meaning beyond the pragmatic.

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EVOLO SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION: WINTER 2019

REIMAGINING THE BAYOU

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IHU | ANYWHERE - EVERYWHERE BANGLADESH - MIYANMAR

Collaborated with: Verรณnica Paulรณn, Alberto Arรณstegui, Daniela Bedoya Type: Conceptual Location: Bangladesh - Miyanmar frontier Duration: 2 weeks Produced for: Evolo Skyscraper Competition 2019 Year: 2019 Software: Rhinoceros, Photoshop, Illustrator

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INTERNSHIP PROJECT: SUMMER 2018

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IHU is a group of various buildings that look like the one above.

Each of them as a whole is modular and can be composed in many ways by the housing blocks that form it.

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IHU: Anywhere, everywhere Miyanmar - Bangladesh frontier

acksonville is a hub of fun with no one to take advantage of. The lack of workforce living downtown or hanging out after work contributes to Jacksonville’s innactivity. Perhaps the whole scenario cannot be changed completely but new architecture ideals and approaches can start adressing certain areas of the city and creating lively pockets of urban scene. One of those lively urban pockets can be the Jacksonville Institute for the Culinary arts. Taking fun (play) and the idea of enjoying the architectural conditions, this building combines three program aspects: retail, residences and the culinary school. The archtiecture within the building seeks to engage the users with each space they go through and feel a cohesive experience in a subjective way. Daylighting, people- watching, visually connecting program spaces and in some areas, being a kid again, These are some of the ways the building attempts to create this effect in people. It attempts to be a place that can make you smile, look up or play (whatever that means to you)

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Building Phasing Phase II: half skyscraper + water crane

Phase III: modular skyscraper

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Desalinization tower

IHU: NOWHERE BUT EVERYWHERE

EVOLO SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION: WINTER 2019

Tidal boat elevator

Elevated green belt

Modular housing units

Housing piping

Gathering space IHU: NOWHERE BUT EVERYWHERE

EVOLO SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION: WINTER 2019

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Boat circulation

Spaces at IHU IHU seeks to create those moments that essentially makes us all humans. From being part of the module build-up to being part of a larger community. IHU has the ability to place areas for recreational activities and its functional parts thanks to the adaptable timber grid.

This is how the elevated belts that serve for circulation automatically become green areas as well. In these, the people staying at IHU can practice the mundane feeling part of the extraordinary. Structure and plumbing is exposed because it recalls what is essential to the people at IHU, and that is to show themselves as they are without the need to cover up. People at IHU can have it all.

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IHU: NOWHERE BUT EVERYWHERE

Hazel Villena Undergraduate Portfolio 2019