JAMES MALDONADO M.ARCH / PRATT INSTITUTE
JAMES MALDONADO M.ARCH
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PRATT INSTITUTE
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JAMES MALDONADO ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER
EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PRATT INSTITUTE GAUD, Brooklyn, NY
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO, San Antonio, TX
Master of Architecture Aug 2012 - May 2015
Bachelor of Science in Architecture Aug 2008 - May 2012
BENTLEY / BRATZ ARCHITECTS Architectural Intern - May 2011 - August 2012 ( Including school year) - Assisted in preparation of schematic design and proposals - Designed all parts of material assemblies, foundation, mill work, details, etc. - Performed research on various components and fixtures to be included in designs. - Composed construction documents based on architects suggestions - Conducted research of building materials. - Effectively communicated with clients and consultants. - Made measurements of existing conditions Projects: - Entrekin Pavilion 122 Stanford Dr. San Antonio, TX - Shields Residence Addition 422 Evans Ave. San Antonio, TX - Stallings Residence Addition 422 Alamo Heights Blvd. San Antonio, TX - Weaver Residence 700 E. Olmos Dr. San Antonio, TX - Herrmann Residence 331 Park Dr. San Antonio, TX MARMON MOK ARCHITECTURE Architectural Intern- June 2014 - August 2014 - Assisted in preparation of revit construction documents - Assisted in preparation of design proposal - Assisted in the composition of presentations for potential projects. - Chose interior finishes and composed finish color boards and proposal packet for Bohnam Academy - Performed field verification of existing conditions - Produced revit model of Trinty Bell Athletic Center Projects: - NISD Sports Gym in Farris Athletic Complex. 8400 North Loop 1604 W, San Antonio, TX - Bonham Academy SAISD Renovation and Expansion 925 S. St. Mary's St. San Antonio, TX - Trinity Bell Athletic Center 1 Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX - McCauliffe Middle School SWISD Renovation 9390 SW Loop 410, San Antonio, TX CONSTRUCTION I have worked for numerous contractors doing home remodeling, and residential construction 2005-2008 CABINET FABRICATOR I built cabinets and shelves in the summer of 2005 for the US Navy. `
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SKILLS
SOFTWARE: -
PUBLICATIONS + EXHIBITIONS
AWARDS + ACTIVITIES
Revit Maya ESRI ArcGIS Sketchup EcoTect AutoCAD
VISUALIZATION: -
Rhinoceros Grasshopper Maya 3D Studio Max Adobe Creative Suite
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3D Modeling Sketching Animation Rendering Model Building Construction Doc's
PECHA KUCHA 2011 Architecture Foundation, San Antonio, TX Feb 2011 - The first Pecha Kucha in San Antonio - Work presented: Contained Sustainability
GAUD 2015 ANNUAL EXHIBIT Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Apr 2015 - Work displayed: Detroit Aquaponics Center
EVOLO SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION 2015 - Work displayed: Pudong Mixed Use Tower
GAUD 2014 ANNUAL EXHIBIT Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Apr 2014 - Work displayed: Public Bath House
LUMINARIA 2011 Univ. Of Texas San Antonio, Mar 2011 - Work displayed: Metamorphic Fashion / Arch.
INPROCESS 2014 ANNUAL PUBLICATION Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Apr 2014 - Work displayed: Public Bath House
PRATT INSTITUTE - Pratt GAUD Scholarship Recipient, 2012-2013 - Student Council Representative, 2012-2014
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO - Magna cum laude - President's List, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010
VOLUNTEER WORK - San Antonio Architecture Foundation, 2010-2011 - AIA Home Tour, 2008-2011 - Habitat for Humanity, 2009-2010
INDEX
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PUDONG MIXED USE TOWER
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BUS STOP RHYTHM
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PUBLIC BATH HOUSE
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ARCHITECTURE DORMITORY
044
DETROIT AQUAPONICS CENTER
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PEK SLIP 1 ELEMENTARY
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BLENDED MORPHOSIS
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CONTAINED SUSTAINABILITIES
CRITIC: HINA JAMELLE PRATT INSTITUTE FALL’14
CRITIC: JASON VIGNERI-BEANE PRATT INSTITUTE FALL’12
CRITIC: ALEXANDRA BARKER PRATT INSTITUTE SPRING ’14
CRITIC: JONAS COERSMEIER PRATT INSTITUTE SPRING ’13
CRITIC: CHRISTOPHER WHITELAW PRATT INSTITUTE FALL’12
CRITIC: KEVIN MCCLELLAN UNIV. TEXAS SAN ANTONIO SPRING’10
CRITIC: KEVIN MCCLELLAN UNIV. TEXAS SAN ANTONIO SPRING ’12
CRITIC: DIANE HAYS UNIV. TEXAS SAN ANTONIO FALL’11
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PUDONG MIXED USE TOWER Pratt Institute Fall 2014
Class
Graduate Design Studio V
Critic
Hina Jamelle
Partner
Milad Showkatbaksh
Location
Pudong, Shanghai, China
Medium
Maya, Rhino, Grasshopper
The Pudong Mixed Use Tower is located at the rivers edge in a district highly occupied by tourist attractions and businesses. The focus of this building is all about attribute driven spaces that split open as the program changes vertically. This mixed use tower is comprised of four programmatic purposes which vertically transform with a sole intent on creating new type of circulatory experiences for the occupants. The programs consist of retail to office to hotel and recreational spaces. Through a series of gradients of enclosures and openings the tower takes on a transformative intelligence. From the ground floor up the occupant can see the vertical chambers recede and divide by elevator shafts and bridges. As the occupant travels in the elevator or views from the above floors the transformation of the programmatic spaces can be observed, simultaneously atrium views offer scenes of the surrounding river. Unifying the tower to the context, the atrium intersecting landscape offers a public space while still serving as clear cues on where entrances are located, all acting as a terminus for the transformation.
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CONCEPT For the design process, analysis were made focusing on the metamorphosis of the frog, from an egg to a mature adult. Extractions of certain attributes were gathered, throughout its transformation, and were replicated and interpreted into three dimensional units. At the end of this process, six different units were created. The units transform from an enclosed surfaced based model to a skeletal and more structural unit. The transformation is made complete through the stacking and connecting of the transforming units, creating four different spines. Moving Vertices
Radical Move
Base Geometry
Radical Move
In Process
Radical Movements of the vertices give the geometry deformation potential
Final Stage
Deformation contains both straight and diagonal movements of the vertices
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Decaying Internal Section
Humidity
Growing Internal Section
Lifespan
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UNITS
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SPINES
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EAST ELEVATION
WEST ELEVATION
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SPINES Spines/units attach to the elevator cores which serve as structural cores and the spines connect together via bracing on the exterior skin which creates a unique structural situation. Thus the center portion of the tower is held up by cores and the cantilevering floor plates or units are held up by an exoskeleton.
SOUTH ELEVATION
NORTH ELEVATION
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Pudong is known for its extravagant use of lights. At night time the tower transforms into a recreational scene, with lounge spaces, a club scene and bars. Simultaneously, the tower lights will turn on and light up the interior and the exterior of the building. Recessed lighting within the interior highlights the edges of the floor plates while lighting placed within the seams of the exterior envelope makes the tower a beacon for commerce among the other buildings in the Pudong night sky.
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PUBLIC BATH HOUSE Pratt Institute Fall 2012
Class
Graduate Design Studio I
Critic
Jason Vigneri Beane
Location
Manhattan, New York
Medium
Craft Foam, Rhino, 3dsmax
This studio explored multiple ways in which tectonic transformations across architectual categories can create structures that are simultaneuously concrete realies and identities in formation. We were asked to develop explicitly material models that while based on the properties , behaviors and intelligence of a single self consistent material, articulate and execute transformations across any number of proto-architectural categories such as surface becoming volume , structure becoming skin , inside becoming outside , two dimensional becoming three dimensional etc. The material chosen to manipulate was EVA foam. Through much process a set number of techniques were derived. This consisted of several characteristics embedded within the physical models; pinching with elastic string and the twisting of the strands, gradients of repitition etc. After the first mid review the class was asked to relate our process models to a body of water. Through the selection of the body of water an ecology was chosen to be mimicked. Mangroves were chosen because they would provide porosity, they intersect water and they provide a safe haven for multiple species. Ultimately, the architecture that emerged was simultaneously abstract and real, novel and informed , foreign and embedded.
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Ground/ Berms/ No openings
Scattered roots/ Plain slits
Roots split/ Slits meet in center
Roots spread/ Intersect water
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POOLS
SAUNA
WOMEN'S CHANGING ROOM
MEN'S CHANGING ROOM
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POOLS
ENTRANCE
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HOT TUBS
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DETROIT AQUAPONICS CENTER Pratt Institute Spring 2014
Class
Graduate Studio IV
Critic
Alexandra Barker
Partners
Chang Cheng, Diana Kokoszka
Location
Detroit, Michigan
Medium
Maya, AutoCAD, Rhino, Grasshopper
The project for this studio was an urban farm to raise and sell fish and plants using the technique of aquaponics, a combination of aquaculture (fish farming) and hydroponics (water-based plant farming). Located at the eastern edge of downtown Detroit, this project would serve as an urban strategy to address the serious issues facing the city: underutilized land and lack of access to fresh food and vegetables. Detroit is a city with almost one third of its area consisting of vacant land where an estimated 72% of residents live in food deserts. Despite being a port city Detroit has no fishing industry. Once a thriving city but now in an economic decline this project recalls the history of automobile manufacturers in this particular city through the utilization of metal panels as a skin. The Detroit Aquaponics Center contains an aquaponics farm, a fish and produce market and an educational space within a unique shell that has an outdoor park on its roof, as well as hydroponic plant growth system embedded within the facade.
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BUILDING ANALYSIS The water circulation is situated within the atrium space of the building. The younger fish would begin at the top and released to the fish tanks below. The terminus of the water circulation would be a large fist tank at the bottom floor which can be viewd from the outdoors and indoors. The vegetation would be located directly above the water circulation and would be fed hydroponically. By creating outdoor green spaces the building responds to the contextual problem of vacant land.
Water Circulation
Aquaponic planter
Greenspace Diagram
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INDOOR/ OUTDOOR PLANT SEASONALITY AND MATURATION SCHEDULE Color correlates to floral bloom, fruiting, autumn foliage and other seasonal color change
INDOOR/OUTDOOR PLANT SEASONALITY AND MATURATION SCHEDULE
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COLOR CORRELATES TO FLORAL BLOOM, FRUITING, AUTUMN FOLIAGE, AND OTHER SEASONAL COLOR CHANGE
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EVERGREEN TREES
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SUSTAINABILITY NARRATIVE
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ECOTECT WIND ANALYSIS
ecotect wind analysis
MEP/ SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIES -Rainwater collection and recycling for irrigation and toilet water -Greenroof to alleviate combined sewer overflow -Geothermal cooling/ heating for less water use -Electricity from detroit's steam turbine -Use ash byproduct as concrete aggregate in permeable pavers -Use reclaimed woord for interior flooring and outdoor seating -Strategic solar shading/ exposure -WIndow shaders to contol heat gain -Sensor/ timer activated lighting -Food waste reuse as compost -Seasonal natural ventilation activates stack effect -Extensive park space to minimize impervious hardscape
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PEK SLIP 1 ELEMENTARY Pratt Institute Spring 2013
Class
Graduate Design Studio II
Critic
Jonas Coersmeier
Location
Manhattan, New York
Medium
Maya, Rhino, AutoCAD
Located on the east side of the financial district in Manhattan, New York, Pek Slip 1 Elementary School seeks to alter the typology of elementary school buildings. As with all schools, saftey is one of the main concerns. However, especially seemingly theses days more schools have been threatened by violence. Pek Slip 1 Elementary School serves as a vessel that attempts to solve these problems. While being both alien, it is embedded, self consistent while differentiated and systematically unique to the populations and events that flow in, around and through it.
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BLENDED MORPHOSIS Pratt Institute Fall 2012
Class
Design Media I
Critic
Christopher Whitelaw
Medium
Animation
Using Maya techniques, a base module was created. Another facsimile of this module was then designed. Between the base model shape and the facsimile, blend shapes emerge. The intensity of these blends is determined by a distance created. All shapes are connected to this point and act similarly. As the point is pulled away from the aperture field the blend-shapes bloom into a volumetric shape. As the point is moved closer however the blend-shape seems to be more of a surface. As part of the assignment a ten second video was created which shows each blend-shape in motion in certain chosen views. Furthermore to strengthen our own digital experience it was a requirement to produce a 3d print of the module As part of the assignment a ten second video was created which shows each blend-shape in motion in certain chosen views. Furthermore to strengthen our own digital experience it was a requirement to produce a 3d print of the module
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CONTAINED SUSTAINABILITY University of Texas San Antonio Spring 2010
Class
Undergraduate Studio V
Critic
Kevin McClellan
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana
Medium
Rhino
The program for this New Orleans residence comes with very specific goals. The design has a budget of $100,000, cannot exceed 880 sq. ft. and needs to be seven feet off the ground. The solutions for these problems require that I as a designer think in an innovative and unique way. The concept for this project is embedded within the material, shipping containers. The primary impact of the shipping container, conceptually, is the shape. The aim is to create a definite form that is modular and can be repeated, arranged, chopped and manipulated as a component for different effects. Rather than keeping the containers raw and unwelcoming, a shading device is included as a contrasting material. This device is also a structure that vines can grow up, to eventually cover the home. It is important to note that shipping containers qualify as a recycled material. There may be a way to have them donated but altogether they are a bargain. Used shipping containers are always being liquidated. Used shipping containers cost usually $1,200 ea. which is perfect for the $100,000 budget.
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CONCEPT The primary impact of the shipping container, conceptually, is the shape. The aim is to create a definite form that is modular and can be repeated, arranged, chopped and manipulated as a component for different effects. Rather than keeping the containers raw and unwelcoming, a shading device is included as a contrasting material. This device is also a structure that vines can grow up, to eventually cover the home.
FORMAL PROCESS
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BUS STOP RHYTHM Pratt Institute Fall 2012
Class
Undergrate Design Studio VI
Critic
Kevin McClellan
Location
San Antonio, Texas
Medium
Rhino, Grasshopper 3d
The location of this site is on St. Mary's st in Downtown San Antonio. The goal of the project was to discover an urban space in need of an architectural intervention. The intervention needed to activate the space and create a new experience. The site chosen is located at a bustling spot that serves as a hub for sixteen bus routes. I investigated the spot and analyzed the rhythm of the energy on the site. It became apparent to me that the site needed a bus stop. The bus stop I created would interact with the people along with the schedule of the bus routes. As people sit at the designated benches for their bus they will begin to recognize a pattern between the architecture and the rhythm that people leave to catch their bus.
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CONCEPT The process for this project directly relates time with form. This became possible through the use of a timeline which conceptually truns something that is not physical into something graphic that I can respond to. Each peak represents a new bus route at a certain anticipated time.
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Rythm
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Sculpt
Open to street
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Routes
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51 nagalitos 54 nagalitos 68 sw medical
Transform
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ARCHITECTURE DORMITORY University of Texas San Antonio Fall 2012
Class
Undergrad. Studio VII
Critic
Diane Hayes
Location
San Antonio, Texas
Medium
Revit, Rhino
Located at the site of four existing historical buildings, this architecture student dormitory fits 100 students and provides public spaces for shopping and dining. As the designer I felt the importance of integrating the existing buildings with the new additions. Being a dorm for architecture students the design needed to be an inspiration and provoke ambition.
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CONCEPT The concept for my design was to create intersecting spaces to form voids. These voids created spots of social interest. Wherever people’s paths intersect, there is an intentional interaction. From these masses another concept arose, use contemporary form and materials that directly contrast the old buildings. To make this concept possible the designs needed to become completely opposite in every aspect.
intersecting masses to create voids
contrasting forms
transformed into a regulated and continuous form
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1ST FLOOR
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2ND FLOOR
3RD FLOOR
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