Selected Works: Graduate Architecture Portfolio

JOSEPH ANAYA

SELECTED WORKS

UNION PIER

As the site is 90% water and located on the East side of the lake, Union Pier envisions a new urban waterfront typology one where healthcare and community intersect With the site just being two miles north of downtown Seattle the city is currently facing a drug addiction epidemic with overdose death rates increasing 104% in King County, Washington since 2014. Lake Union’s water & lakebed are heavily polluted due to past industrial uses, shipbuilding and more recently, stormwater runoff. While the design simultaneously cleanses patients and waste, Union Pier serves two primary functions: supporting patients suffering from substance abuse and purifying polluted lake water. Union Pier is placed with both pier foundations and floating structural systems which correspond to the path of the rehabilitation process. New patients are firmly supported while patients further along their journey to sobriety have the opportunity to be exposed to free-floating dwelling types.

Fall 2021

Project Partner: Andrew Schick

Instructors: Ulrike Heine, George Schafer, Andreea Mihalache, David Franco

The idea of the relationship between cleansing polluted water and detoxification.

Site

Drug Abuse Zones

Water Runoff

Health Centers

Initial key programs for patients as well as integrating the public

Various treatment programs raised vertically to increase patient privacy

Dwelling typologies vary in size & layout relating to the progress stages of sobriety for the patients.

GENOVA CULTURAL HUB

Through the design of a cultural hub for the Foce District in Genova, Italy, the immediate representation of harmony, lightness, and an international connection is exposed. Harmony represented through the simultaneous arrangement of rectilinear and curvilinear forms integrated together seamlessly through context on varying levels. The rectilinear elements at the contextual height of Luigi Daneri's three buildings surrounding the Piazza Rossetti place the cultural hub gently into the site while the southern curvilnear buildings sweep across the lower half in a dialogue with the Mediterranean Sea. Lightness in architecture is expressed through the design's elevated footprint in the Piazza giving back the ground plane to the public. Finally, the international presence that Genova's ports has is finally taken advantage of through a combination of dominant axes revealing and accentuating the main theater space as well as a heightened focus on passing ships.

SPRING 2022

Group Partners: Eric Downing, Kendall Copeland

Instructors: Julie Wilkerson, Luca Rocco, and Danilo Vespier

Mr. Palomar, a visionary, experiences thoughts and beliefs that veer from normality. He notices details, feelings emotions and has inspired our team to incorporate not only these, but more importantly his ideology of thinking from a radical perspective. through the reading of his wide array of experiences, we were able to pull and highlight certain concepts that impacted us and then worked to represent them graphically. He has beeen a great inspiration for our project architectually as well as ourselves personally.

The three primary structures utilize particular design strategies to provide protection form the elements. A double facade is used for the theater creating a transition of opaque to transparency. The southern portion of the site, both buildings use either overhangs are a green roof for the use of shade or decrease the absorption of heat.

Our proposal has the northern site raised in the air to preserve the historical Piazza Rossetti as well as to keep the piazza open to the public This design aslo allows us to have a light footprint.

The shaping of the facade for the theater came from the idea of the front hull of a boat. The site has an open view of the path for all the cruiselines that enter the port of Genova. This acknowledges the feature that feeds into the the city's culture The facade design also recognizes the amount of sunlight that it will recieve. In reaction, the southern side of the facade has smaller openings and as the material progresses to the North side, the openings become larger to let let in more indirect sunlight. As the theater may be used at anytime of the day, the interior lights will glow onto the piazza at night to also create a safer space

Utilizing a locator to determine position of larger openings

Using the curve to shift and pull the larger openings to its location.

Attracting and shaping the larger panels to the northern side of the theater

BRONZEVILLE TOWERS

The neighborhood of Bronzeville, Illinois, located on the Southside of Chicago along the lakefront has a major revamp proposed by Skidmore Owens & Merrill. The development will be constructed on the site of the former Michael Reese Medical Center, which closed its doors in 2008 after a 127-year run as one of Chicago’s top medical care centers. Like the historic Michael Reese hospital, Bronzeville Lakefront will be a first-in-class, inclusive center for healthcare innovation on this South Side site which spans more than 100 acres. Along the healthcare programs, the masterplan will also provide housing and research centers Our task is to choose a section of the masterplan for our site and propose programs relates and provides service not only to Bronzeville but to the rest of the Southside of Chicago. With this, we explored the typology of highrises that joins the urban context of both Chicago and the SOM's masterplan.

FALL 2022

Project Partner: Gregg Ussery

Instructors: Tim Brown

ABU DHABI FLAMIGNO VISITOR CENTER

The Al Wathba Wetland Reserve is in the UAE Capitol of Abu Dhabi

The city is home to a variety of wildlife, the most famous of which is the regions’ flamingo population. As many as 4,000 of these pink specimen migrate to the AL Wathba Reserve during autumn and reside until the end of spring.

The concept revolved around using natural building material found in Abu Dhabi, with rammed earth and bamboo being the key components of the design. The shape was inspired by flamingo nests that had a canopy to create a shading system for the visitor center.

Summer 2020

Project Partner: Ryan Rufer

Instructor: Kyle Reynolds

Creating the path for the segments where the canopy will connect

Creating a range of heights for the catenary shapes of the bamboo canopy

During my time in France in 2019, we studied many different styles that the country holds. Besides just taking pictures of the sites that we visited, we would sketch and practice shading the light and shadow to understand the value in any given environment.

LIGHT & SHADOW STUDY

FRANCE

During my time in Italy and France in 2022, we took many class trips to various cities and towns in both countries. While on these trips we were given time to sit down, sketch and indulge our experience.

FIELD SKETCHES

FRANCE & ITALY