ALEJANDRO
portfolio of selected works
Micro-home Competition
LOCATION: 1800 antelope hills road, Marfa
AREA: 256 sqft
HEIGHT: 3 floors
Buildner Competition| Summer 2023
Site: Marfa, Texas
Team: Ivan Aguilar, John Connor Hathaway, Zach Elzi
Drawings involved in: Diagrams, Plan, Renders, Sections
West Texas is a special place that few understand until being there in person. The sky stretches forever, and it feels like the world has no end. While this endless stretch of land may hold possibilities, it equally creates new challenges. The empty space encourages sprawl, with few people taking up large chunks of land. It breeds isolationism, as there is no force prodding people to gather closer together. On a small scale this means lonely farms miles apart, and near bigger cities senseless urban sprawl. It is a region dominated by cars, with so much endless space people are unable to cross any meaningful distance on foot. While we cannot change the nature of West Texas- and would never want to, we can offer a solution that helps people live a more connected life within the circumstances presented. This is a community “basin” that encourages users to descend to a group, and ascend to privacy.
Pavillion Competition| 2021-2023
Site: Seville, Spain
Instructor: Angel Martinez Garcia-Posada Team: Independent Project Pavillion Competition
LOCATION: Alameda de Hercules
AREA: 600 sqft
HEIGHT: 1 story
This project was shortlisted as a studio assignment to undertake a competition for a pavilion. Understanding fluid form is important when catching energy. There is no better example of energy in Seville than the Brotherhood’s Estaciones de Penitencia studying the noise and movement of this event, gave me a suitable location for the pavillion. By using existing pathways from the brotherhood we can begin to combine fluid form with that energy and create a glove that catches, collects, and introduces space. This space becomes a pavilion, to join, converge, concourse.
Turnpike
(a cultural center)
Closer than one thinks
LOCATION: 511 dorchester ave, Boston
AREA: 66,000 sqft
HEIGHT: 5 floors
Semester V Texas Tech| Fall 2022
Site: Boston, Massachusetts
Instructor: Zahra Safaverdi
Team: Independent Project
Boston is a place with no shy testimony of Architecture. Being so it is no place of the Architect to intrude on that tradition. On the left side of a proposed site in Boston, lay a railway that once held the title of the Massachusetts Turnpike. This railway shared a similar notion to that of a cultural center as it was an intersection from a variety of peoples. To embrace the history of Boston and the continued growth in culture, it only made sense to welcome the track towards the building. A pathway for cultures to meet at, a spot for people to learn, a place for the city to grow.
Noise plays a large point in placing a building within its site. The following studies represent the noise both literal and metaphorical that helped place the project in its environment. This very attribute of the site begins to influence the public and private. The program beginning to be influenced groups itself into districts adapting to the needs of the building. With such a vast difference in spaces and use, a design forms outside of a center, and at that center a community. The turnpike connects all.
OXIDIZED VARNISHED MTL SHEET @1.5MM THICKNESS MECHANICALLY ATTACHED
WINDOW AS SCHEDULED
OXIDIZED VARNISHED MTL SHEET @1.5MM THICKNESS
0’-2” CMU VENEER
0’-6” CMU W/HORIZONTAL REINFORCEMENT ON 6” STUD W/ BATT INSULATION AND 5/8” GYP BD.
WINDOW AS SCHEDULED
0’-6” CMU W/HORIZONTAL REINFORCEMENT ON 6” STUD W/ BATT INSULATION AND 5/8” GYP BD.
7’-5/8” BOARD FORM CONCRETE OVER 6” STUD W/ BATT INSULATION AND 5/8” GYP BD. CONC. REF: STRUCT:
POURED CONC OVER SINGLE-PLY ROOFING SYSTEM AS SPECD ON R-30 RIGID INSULATION MECHANICALLY ATTACHED TO METAL DECK FINISHED FLOORING AS SCHEDULED
The Mellifera Project (Hydroponics
Texas Tech University
Semester VIII, Texas Tech| Spring 2024
Site: Lubbock, Texas ( Or Various locations)
Instructor: Arja Logman
Team: Independent Project
With the Consideration of Hydroponics at hand, and food deserts around the world, our site in Lubbock becomes a testing ground for a new type of therapy that will both feed people, and heal them. The melifera Project takes advantage of native honey bearing bee’s on site to produce a type of apitherapy used for respiratory healing.
