Architecture Portfolio - Jorge Concepción

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jorge CONCEPCIÓN Ó portfolio 2010-2013

Design, at its essence, is a captivating force that translates our creativity and richest ideas into a dialogue of limitless interpretations. Because it is so varied, its practice must be thoughtful, considered, and ever-evolving. Design is not just about creating but about contributing one’s passion towards society.

With this said, architecture has the ability to reinforce society’s best intentions if its design is sensitive to society’s needs. Thus there is the importance of the design process in which it presents an opportunity of exploration as a tool of understanding. These considerations make a difference and emphasize that quality of what makes architecture, not merely a building form.

With that in mind, the architect must understand a broad spectrum of such ideas and experiential qualities within the elements of design. It is then that architecture would be defined as a collaborative force among its users and surroundings. Architecture is the result of this collaboration of idea, experience, and especially intention.

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gateway to tybee island

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architecture plaza

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james monroe public library

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landscape explorations

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music conservatory

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gateway to tybee island spring 2011 professor a. thagne tybee island, ga

The nature of structural systems, including long-span structures, affects and informs architectural design. With a series of explorations such as determining the genius loci, the spirit of the place, and dealing with structural emphasis in order to have a holistic language, the Tybee Island marine research facility establishes its presence as a gateway to the natural and manmade environment.

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site location-Lazaretto Creek

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is only two and a half miles long and two thirds of a mile wide however its strategic location near the mouth of Savannah assigned to it an important role in the birth and state of Georgia.

site panorama

ARCH 303 class site model

This being so Lazaretto Creek is proven to be an important bio diverse area which is in vital need of care and protection. This site is considered to be an estuary which has a wide variety of unique and delicate wildlife.

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genius loci Bringing out the emphasis on the representation on the presence of man within the site. Man having to adjust within its environment and how the vertical language is what determines the human presence within Lazaretto Creek.

presence of man

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the posts found within the docks near establishments of Lazaretto Creek

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the Georgia sea turtle and other wildlife, uses the estuary area as breeding grounds

A comprehensive structure that is composed of two identities reminiscent of the site structural concept model

process sketches

primary system secondary system

Within a main structural system another complimentary element aids with the broad spanning between the primary structure, also using beam bracing to withstand lateral forces.

Again reinforcing the idea within codependency of elements within architecture and achieving a oneness within the design.

structure diagram

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final model

primary system

beam bracing

secondary system

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complete structure

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plaza level

lobby entrance

view above tanks

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first level

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With the use of physical study models, a structure was developed in order to recognize the distinct elements that help maintain the identity of the place. The structure is an opportunity to understand the central core of how an idea could be communicated through an architectural language being subject to the physical laws. Tybee’s gateway would act as a symbol of the place in which one could perceive the presence of its people and its marine life.

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pedestrian bridge vehicular bridge

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architecture plaza winter 2011 professor d. yang college park, md

There are ways in which a building’s site and environmental context influences architectural design. With the study of the idea of place and other existing elements, a process of analysis of context would provide a dialogue of spaces respectful to the site. The program is an extension of the architecture department at the University of Maryland.

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The site that was acquired is between the architecture department and the social science department. Within the architecture department there is a rich history of the faculty and student relationship which defines it. With the extension of the school, more studio spaces and faculty offices are needed reason why its purposeful to have an appropiate approach that still demonstrates the institution culture and respects the surrounding context.

college park

site panorama

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noise traffic

vegetation

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unfolds its rich layers of meaning to the people

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parti diagram

subtlety With the analysis of the existing context and the condition of how the surrounding vegetation creates a language with the existing building this ideas of subtlety would be what derives the changes with the extension of the school involving shifts of planes and a dialogue of light which would enhance the schools facilities.

schematic plan

site plan

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schematic plan

view of hallway within the connecting bridge

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upper level

faculty offices-1 lobby-2 studio-3 woodshop storage-4 student terrace-5 faculty terrace-6

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classrooms-7 gallery-8 lobby-9 plaza-10 computer lab-11

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auditorium-12 conference room-13

axonometric

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lecture rooms

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The new facilities provide not only abundant spaces for the whole school but provides an environment in which there is a shifting language of “old” and “new”. The addition is essentially an example of how changes wouldn’t be overwhelming to our surroundings and would not completely detach or be secluded from the existing.

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james monroe public library fall 2011 professor a. payne washington d.c.

Issues of new architecture in existing high density urban environments with complex social and cultural characters were explored within this project. Studies of urban context and building types are required to reinforce a richer understanding of a complex environment. Located in downtown Washington D.C., the James Monroe Public Library is considered a vertical element of a public domain within the city’s organization.

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“containment”

containment With this idea of “containment” and what the eclectic fabric of Washington D.C. is composed of, the library is essentially built by a form attaining most of what could be considered the “served” spaces that depend on these two heavy elements that act as the foundation in order to withhold the central form. Emphasizing the way this light element represents what we consider the content being held by the human intervention of these forms. service element

public space

content element

final model

series of study models

With the massing studies and other representational work, a development of this idea is better grasp by this notion of having a main truss system between these two heavy elements in order to elevate the main form above the ground level.

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basement level 1. branch manager 2. employee conference 3. book processing 4. employee break room

computer workstations/children’s collections adult’s and teen’s collections community room

special collections/atrium

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truss framing

steel rods

reinforced concrete walls

concrete floor slabs

reinforced concrete walls

channel glass walls

glass tube louvers

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plaza level view

east elevation

main collection

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Since the early uses of what was considered a library, there have been certain manipulations that caused this idea of attaining knowledge to be changed into a basic media container. This has blinded our perspective and has caused a fragmented lost memory of what a library truly was. Libraries were thought of being storage like spaces for books and any kind of record within our history. Today these spaces could be transformed to have a cohesive interaction of our modern technological digital media still with the essence of a library.

pennsylvania avenue view

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landscape explorations

Work done over the Career Discovery Program at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Various design exercises concerning landscape architecture were explored in a course of six weeks.

summer 2012 career discovery cambridge, ma

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canopy study

canopy study

canopy plan-section

canopy sketch

canopy proposed designed study model

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eiditic image- back bay fens

back bay fens collage

exploded axonometric

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topography design

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music conservatory winter - spring 2012 professor b. wishne savannah, ga

Comprehensive studio course in which a design was developed for a music conservatory located within the urban fabric of Savannah, Georgia. The course constituted in developing further the conceptual phase into a detailed understanding of systematical elements.

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overlaping language

parti diagram

the diagram above demonstrates the overlapping propotional qualities seen within the site and the program. the diagram on the left shows the similar relationship based on the overlapping qualities of the program within the site in relation to the urban context.

Since the Greeks and historic figures in the Renaissance, proportional qualities have been highly considered within how one orders a certain composition, being space or music.

With this widely known relationship of music and architecture, the conservatory evokes this idea of a harmonic condition, were symmetry and asymmetry creates a certain dialogue within a compostion.

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ground level plan 10- instrument shop 11- school lobby 12- reception 13- student lockers 14- parents lounge 15- shop 16- cafe 17- main hall lobby 18- parking 19- rear landscape 20- front plaza 21- sunken courtyard

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savannah music conservatory

north elevation scale - 1/16�= 1’

north elevation ground level plan

second level plan 21- electronic music studio 22- studio 23- large studio 24- pratice rooms 25- main hall recpetion 26- exhibition hallway 27- balcony 28- main perfomance hall 29- sound control room

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atrium entrance

practice rooms physical model

second level plan

atrium entrance beam bracing steel cable

primary column

metal cladding

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practice room passive system slanted skylight

ventilation opening

rain water collecting pipe

packaged unit

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acoustical and visual performance study section

performance hall section model

floor sheating fixed steel plate horizontal metal mullion bolt connection within mullion neoprene setting block gasket connection

curtain wall section detail 3/8”=1’

section detail 1/8”=1’

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sunken courtyard

main performance hall

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The conservatory is organized in an overlapping language of spaces that distinguish the education from the performance.

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Construct of Place: an exploration of meaning in San Juan SAN JUAN, PR GRADUATE THESIS 2013

A lack of character within the public realm raises certain questions about meaning and place. By examining these elements and the origin of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, a placement of a church would be provided in order to provide a sense of place in the capitol district where there is none. Provide a reinterpretation of a church within the axis of what is the house of power would be vehicle of self-discovery in which provides a means of understanding man and its environment.

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