Iker Rodriguez - Architecture Portfolio

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Project Designer | Powers Brown Architects | July 2021 - Present ▪ Developed conceptual design presentations, aerials, renderings, and site plans ▪ Utilized AutoCAD and Revit to design and present 3D models of proposed locations to clients and stakeholders ▪ Interpreted municipal ordinances and building codes and applied to projects to verify compliance

LinkedIn : Iker Rodriguez Ortiz Monasterio Houston, TX 77019

Skills

Freehand AutoCAD Illustrator Indesign Revit Rhino Sketchup Freehand

Passions

Profficient Profficient Profficient Profficient Learning Basic Basic Basic

Drawing Photography Movies Philosophy & Sociology Pick-up Soccer Biking Trails

Languages

Spanish English French

Fluent Fluent Conversational

Art Commission | Independent discussion group | Dec. 2020 - Jan. 2021 • Designed an image that illustrated the group’s critical values of analyzing socio-political phenomenon through the lens of Deconstruction.

Book Cover Commission | Independent Architect | Dec. 2019 - Jan. 2020 • Articulated original design ideas to client and translated concepts into artwork for a book cover.

Logo Commission | New Horizon Drone Services | Apr. 2018 - May 2018 • Developed concept sketches and utilized Photoshop and Illustrator to create professional branding logo for company.

Architecture Intern | FS Group Architects | June 2016 - July 2016 • Collected documentation of door schedule of LoneStar renovation project with site visit photos • Assisted in red-lining plans of renovation of Consulate of India in Houston via site visit Intern | Shipcom Wireless | June 2015 - July 2015 • Built a styrofoam and carbon-fiber RC naval re-supply drone tracked with RFID to test its use for a safer naval emergency operation.

Architecture Intern | Acumen Design |June 2014 - July 2014 • Presented drawings for a client review of a restaurant design proposal. Learned ways in which designers delegate their work for commissions in this internship.

Education

University of Houston | Bachelor of Architecture | Magna Cum Laude | May 2021 Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society in Architecture and Allied Arts | Since 2019 HarvardX: Architectural Imagination with K. Michael Hays | Summer 2017

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Research Center 4th Year / Fall 2019 Prof. Duke Fleshman

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Maggie’s Centre Houston 5th Year / Fall 2020 Prof. Ronnie Self

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Art and Music Library 5th Year / Spring 2020 Prof. Geoffrey Brune

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FW Modern Art Museum Extension 4th Year / Spring 2020 Prof. Ronnie Self

Bicameral Factory Research Center sqft Spotts Park, Houston, TX The design divides research and development spaces and community engagement lofts into two parallel bars. The program focuses on producing and displaying renewable technologies in an experiential way.

A ramp utlizes the momentum of the park trail to weave the curious and interested on a gradual journey in between an architecture which exists within the landscape.

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site analysis Observation sketches and drawings over photographs highlighted the main problems and opportunities of the site. The park began to unravel its pathways and moments, both by design and by unintentional wondering.

the larger path It became clear that the site in question needed to be part of the larger picture, a social ecosystem embedded in another.

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concept The project criteria introduces into a friendly community park the intrusive process of production. This project is an attempt to reconcile an integrated design between its site context and programmatic content by starting with the organizing principle that choreographs them: the line of fabrication.

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Site Plan

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A. Fabrication Building B. Community Building C. Gathering & Display

D. Research Space E. Education Space

sectional analysis “...skeleton frame...”

A study of the history of the modern factory informed the architecture of the building, which is to express its skeleton frame as a symbol of fabrication.

1871-1872 Menier Chocolate Mill Noisiel-sur-Marne, France Jules Saulnier

1909 AEG Turbine Factory Berlin, Germany Peter Behrens

1910 Packard Motor Co. Forge Shop Albert Khan Detroit, Michigan, US

1920-1930 Les Ateliers Voirin-Marinoni Montataire, France Auguste Perret

1921-1923 Steinberg Hat Factory Luckenwalde, Germany Erich Mendelsohn 12

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Transverse section through buildings

“...like a trail.”

A central ramp was studied rigorously to explore how a promenade can weave through the building like a trail.

This programmatic factory is analogous to the process of experience: the promenade.

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House on the Prairie Cancer Rehabilitation Center 10,000 sqft Medical Center Prairie, Houston TX 5th Year / Fall 2020 Prof. Ronnie Self A community center for those affected with Cancer.

The design integrates an existing pocket prairie with spaces for quiet contemplation, gathering spaces for support groups and other activities, and a small library. The project is driven by Jay Appleton’s concept of Prospect and Refuge written in his 1975 book, Experiencing Landscape.

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paths

site analysis

foci

thresholds

space

“...frame the view...”

The architecture of the walls are intended to act as thresholds that embody the clarity of space and frame the view towards the prairie.

Gottfried Semper Primitive Hut Four elements of Architecture

Tadao Ando Casa Wabi Mexico

Glenn Murcutt Marika-Alderton House Australia

Glenn Murcutt Boyd Education Center Australia

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The building exists as a place of refuge that connects to the exisitng trails. It becomes a destination of the architectural promenade while enhancing the focus towards the prairie.

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1. Drop Off Entrance 2. Drop Off Entrance 2 3. Living Room - Kitchen 4. Reading Rooms 5. Small Reading Corners 6. Consultaion Rooms 7. Restrooms 8. Library 9. Existing vegetable garden

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The Library...

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Library North-East Elevation

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...like a birdhouse

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Finding Urbanity Library for art, music and literature 22,000 sqft ElDorado Ballroom, Houston TX Emancipation Avenue, once a living, growing street - an artery of the Third Ward and of Houston’s Black community, has slowly become a barren landscape of empty lots, forgotten buildings, deteriorating structures, and remaining residences of a historic urban character that faces the changes of gentrification.

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scheme development

In order to create a sense of place, the cultural Library for Art and Music will envelope central courtyard gardens. Thus the space aims to cultivate an intimate dialogue with its architecture and encourage a social engagement of the various programs through these various courtyard conditions. Materiality will embody this approach in its delineation of the edges of the courtyards. The library spaces are treated as vaults of natural light by a playfull compression of vertical space, while the exterior spaces experience instances of horizontal compression.

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concept In order to create a sense of place, the cultural Library for Art and Music envelopes central courtyard gardens. The space aims to cultivate an intimate dialogue with its architecture and encourage a social engagement of the various programs through these various courtyard conditions.

ENCLOSED GARDEN GARDEN

ADMIN & RESEARCH

URBAN GARDEN

GRAND LOBBY

READING ROOM ART & CAFE

PROMENADE

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LIBRARY LIBRARY

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EMANCIPATION AVE

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Muuratsalo Experimental House Alvaar Alto 1953 Muuratsalo, Finland

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Instances of grand social activity exist in what feel like the alleys of large markets. They are niche and intimate tents filled with the chatter of barter amidst the artifacts of labor from growing businesses. How peculiar are the conditions that have allowed this activity to completely change the social composition of the street, if even for a few hours.

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Stuart Street Emancipation Avenue

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A strategy of carefully designed edges communicates the centrality of the courtyard. Structural clay tile is used in its natural color on these edges as a way to emphasize the sense of place.

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Materiality will embody this approach in its delineation of the edges of the courtyards. The library spaces are treated as vaults of natural light by a playfull compression of vertical space, while the exterior spaces experience instances of horizontal compression.

Forest Cenotaph Museum Modern Art Museum Extension 60,000 sqft Fort Worth, TX 4th Year / Spring 2020 Prof. Ronnie Self The extension to Tadao Ando’s Modern Art Museum approaches the existing forest of trees with metaphoric sensibility. The existing museum carves space with monumental walls, whereas the extension fixes space with a column grid; a concrete ode to the trees. Fabric systems used to diffuse light into the spaces are hung as canopies whose light and thin material quality is juxtaposed with the compressive strength of the concrete columns, like leaves to a tree.

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“...like leaves to a tree.”

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Francis Halle Tree Drawing

Myoenji Columbarium Furumori Koichi Studio Japan 2014

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The process involved an iterative exploration of the column grid and how it can be used to create a transition with the landscape.

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