Architectural Portfolio_Jeffrey Tistoj-Lara

PORTFOLIO Jeffrey Tistoj-Lara

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JEFFREY TISTOJ-LARA Contact

jeff11.jtl@ku.edu | 417.758.9764 I believe design should be grand yet accessible, blending simplicity and artistry while staying human-centered. My work focuses on creating spaces that connect people, enhance everyday experiences, and benefit communities. Through my projects, I strive to make architecture both inspiring and inclusive.

EDUCATION Aug. 2021-Current Summer 2024 Graduated May 2021

University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS | 4th Year M. Arch.

Study Abroad | Spain and Portugal Carthage High School | Carthage, MO | National Honors Society

INVOLVEMENT Sept. 2023-Current

KU Mentorship Collaborative | 3rd & 4th Year Architecture Mentor

Oct. 2023-May 2024

NOMAS General Body | 3rd Year Representative

Sept. 2021-May 2024

Ellis Foundation Mentorship Program | 2nd & 3rd Year Mentor

2024 Fall Semester

Selected 4th year project for school wide exhibition

WORK EXPERIENCE Aug. 2023-Current

Dr. Keith Van de Riet | Design Build - Personal Work | Lawrence, KS

May 2017-July 2021

Tistoj General Construction LLC | Family Business | Carthage, MO

SKILLS Revit Rhino Sketchup Grasshopper Adobe Suite Lumion Enscape Twinmotion

REFERENCES Keith Van de Riet | Ph.D. | NCARB Interim Chair, School of Architecture & Design kvdr@ku.edu | 917.202.5413 | https://www.kvdrdesign.com/ Gustavo Amaral | Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of KU ARCD gustavo.amaral@ku.edu Bryan Gross | Studio Critic, University of Kansas bjgross@ku.edu | 816.797.2171

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1 Unity Square 4th Year Fall

2 Alley Art Center 3rd Year Spring

3 Film Row Arts Center 2nd Year Spring

4 Ryan Gray Pavilion 3rd Year Fall

5 Stadium Exploration with Grasshopper Spring 2025

6 Southern Europe Study Abroad Summer 2024

Unity Square Location | Castleberry Hill, Atlanta, GA Professor | Gustavo Do Amaral

The Castleberry Hill Mixed-Use Complex is a forwardthinking project designed to enhance community stability and inclusive while preserving the historic identity of the Castleberry Hill neighborhood in Atlanta. Inspired by the area’s industrial legacy and vibrant arts culture, the project integrates mixed-use programming, including family-oriented housing, community spaces and sustainable storm water management strategies.

This design prioritizes afford-ability, accessibility, and environmental sustainability. By blending modern interventions with Castleberry Hill’s historical architectural language, this project bridges the past and the future.

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Site Analysis The site is located in a gray area of Castleberry Hill. The majority of people live in the historical area, where businesses and restaurants are located. When looking at significant transit routes, the site is further from any route to downtown Atlanta. Understanding this disconnection, Unity Square aims to help boost this gray area of Castleberry Hill by providing public spaces, living units, and stores. This site also has connections to the MercedesBenz Stadium and has views that will be captured by Unity Square.

POPULATION OF CASTLEBERRY HILL (2024 Population)

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Children 113 Younger Adult 534 College 111

Senior 85

Older Adult 355

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DOWNTOWN ATLANTA

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Massing Iterations Residential Commercial Parking Historical District Stadium/Modern Cars Open to Dense

Site Circulation

Site Context

Final Mass

Site Plan 1 – Bar/Cafe 2 – Lobby 3 – Convenient Store 4 – Art Gallery 5 – Studio 6 – Library 7 – Fitness Center ADA Route

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Benefits and Improvements of Site Unity Square was designed not only for housing but also to enhance the site and promote sustainability. Green spaces were incorporated to benefit residents and the community while reducing the building’s footprint. Using I-Tree data from site research, the trees at Unity Square help lower carbon dioxide by 9,108 pounds, store 153,577 pounds, intercept 1,013,499 gallons of rainfall, and prevent 159,151 gallons of storm water runoff. These efforts contribute to a more environmentally friendly and sustainable area.

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Breakdown of Tree Benefits

Existing Site

Number in US Dollars

Storm water 45.58

Unity Square’s Site Summer Saving

82.36

Number in US Dollars

Winter Saving -84.11 CO2 166.985

Air Quality 90.849

CO2 211.824

Storm water 85.35

Air Quality 108.121

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Section Parking garage and some retail stores are at the lower level in which residents and visitors are able to visit. Above that is the Plaza, where the main commercial area is at, allowing people to come visit the building without disturbing the residents on the upper levels. Residents level are given balcony that face the plaza to create a connection with visitors and other residents.

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LEGEND One Bedroom Two Bedroom Three Bedroom Four Bedroom Core One Core Two Core Three Core Four

Floor Plans

Egress Plans

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RAIN SCREEN FACADE

BI-FOLDS DOORS

INDIVIDUAL BALCONIES

OVERHANG

Facade Unity Square’s facade was created to respond to the elements and users of the building. Bi-folds and operable windows design into the facade.

This allows residents to control how much natural sunlight would be allow in their units and control natural ventilation in the units. Upper levels extends out to create and overhang, providing shade to the commercial areas for visitors and residents.

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Connecting Castleberry Hill Being located in a gray area of Castleberry Hill, Unity Square becomes an intersection for both residents and visitors of the area (like a game in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium). Image below shows the Plaza being active during the evening. This Plaza allows people to hang around the commercial area and residents are able to be part of the interaction by having balconies looking out to the plaza. This allows the Plaza to be an active area for everyone, any time of the day.

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Alley Art Center Location | Kansas City, MO Professor | Bryan Gross

Cultural precincts, containing art centers and performing arts venues in cities play a significant social and cultural role, bringing vitality to urban life and educating their citizens.

Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District is already such a place, with art galleries, First-Friday events, a diverse restaurant scene, and state-of-the-art performing arts center in its Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

There are large venues that hold large capacities but does not accommodated smaller more experimental acts for smaller audiences. Therefore a smaller companion performing arts center is needed to accommodate smaller acts that provide more intimate and experimental performances.

| Alley Art Center

Site Analysis The goal of the project is to help develop the east side of the Crossroads. Looking at the location and the context, the Center wants to be landmark, similar to the KC Star and T-Mobile Center, it wants to be iconic but also encourage engagement within the community. It is also located at an important intersection making it an ideal place to create public space for the community.

T-MOBILE CENTER

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1 – Dance Studio 2 – Restroom 3 – Mechanical Room 4 – Lobby

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5 – Administration Space 6 – Storage 7 – HVAC Plenum (Under Recital Seats) 8 – Recital Hall

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Form Development In continuing of developing the form of the Alley Art Center, public circulation and space were influenced in how it would interact with the community of the Crossroads. The Crossroads is a developing area that welcomes a vibrant and diverse community that welcomes all walks of life and all forms of artistic expression. Considering this, allowing the community interact with the art center is an important by allowing art wall, green plaza, outdoor auditorium, and facade that stands out from the Crossroads.

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| Alley Art Center

INSULATION LAYER CONCRETE LAYER METAL DECK COMPOSITE STAINLESS STEEL PANELS PAC-CLAD HT UNDERLAYMENT WOOD SHEATHING 6” DEEP METAL STUDS KWS THERMAZEE CLADDING ATTACHMENT WIDE FLANGE W8 X 10 OUTER CONCRETE WALL INSULATION LAYER INNER CONCRETE WALL

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TEMPERED HARDBOARD (2) LAYERS 3/4” PLYWOOD (2) LAYERS 1X4 SLEEPER CONCRETE LAYER VAPOR BARRIER GRAVEL GRAFFITI ART WALL

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East Elevation

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Facade The facade was created to act as a sheet for the building in which the high points locate the venues inside. The metal facade acts as a sheet revealing the art under it. This creates a canvas for local artist to paint on and help support their art. Keeping the metal simple and clean, it highlights the art.

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Expanding the Crossroads Alley Art Center goal is to be a landmark in the evolving landscape of the Crossroads. The Center provides urban space to the community to enjoy its beauty and allow local performers and artist alike to show their talents to the communities. The Center is able to accomplish this goals by being interactive to the community by allowing to be painted over, having venues for the locals, and creating a rest stop. This allows the Center to be a new landmark and will help produce movement to the east side of the Crossroads.

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Film Row Arts Center Location | Kansas City, MO Professor | Marianne Remboldt

The arts center building is located in the heart of Kansas City’s Arts District. Surrounding buildings are the historical building of Kansas City’s Film Row and new modern buildings that are bringing people to the Arts District.

The purpose of the building is to allow people to learn about the past and future of the Arts District and Film Row while providing classes and workshops to the public.

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Site Development Establishing a division between public and private areas on the site. This division influenced how the programs would be layout and where the building would sit on the site. It would also decide how the building’s floor plan would be layout.

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First Floor 1 – Storage Room 2 – Mechanical Room 3 – Restrooms 4 – Lobby

5 – Learning Space 6 – Theater 7 – Gallery/Film/Archive 8 – Reception

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Facade The choice was in favor of representing theaters’ red curtains. The facade acts as louvers and helps control how much sunlight enters into the building. It works as a way to determine which rooms need more sunlight.

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Private Rooms

Public Rooms

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Facade Influence Many rooms, like the mechanical room, requires little to no sunlight in them as only employees are allowed to enter those rooms. However, public spaces or offices need sunlight to provide a warm and welcoming feel to the public spaces. In the main circulation path, where the grand stair is located, a skylight was added to help create a grand impression into the space when walking through the building.

Ryan Gray Pavilion Location | Hillcrest Elementary School, Lawrence, KS Professor | Keith Van de Riet

The Pavilion was a new addition to the Ryan Gray Playground for All at Hillcrest Elementary School. The Pavilion was aimed to encapsulate the diverse community with its pleated roof and colors. Its main use is to provide shade but a rain garden was added to help with rain runoff, in which it created a teaching element for the students.

Arch 509 Studio: Ocean Babcock, Allison Brooks, Natalie Chalona, Monet Defreece, Anna Dority, Ellie Goodman, Matt Hahn, Shyann Jonscher, Alice Kucherov, Ashley Loza, Nick Peterson, Kevin Rauch, Jeffrey Tistoj-Lara, Jillian Tomlinson, Alex Ultzsch, Rich Wiggins, Elaina Wright

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Design Development Project began with the design team being divided into four groups, each tasked with designing a shaded structure in which one would be selected for further progression. My group envisioned a structure inspired by tree lines and movement that would help form our pavilion. Our goal was to make the pavilion standout but also co-side with the playground. After meeting and discussion with our groups. Our project was chosen to move forward and undergo numerous refinements and enhancement to proceed with fabrication and construction.

Tree Line Crew: Natalie Chalona, Matthew Hahn, Shyann Jonscher, Jeffrey Tistoj-Lara

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Fabrication and Construction Mock-ups were created to understand how the structure would be made and connected. This also helped us understand how each piece of equipment can help us construct the pavilion. After learning how it would be constructed, we followed the construction documents that were made to build our pavilion in the warehouse.

Afterward, we took it to the site, galvanized and powder coated, and started constructing our pavilion.

The Ryan Gray Pavilion was opened to the public on December 15, 2023 and has become a gathering space for the community of Lawrence

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| Stadium Exploration

Arena Castelão with Grasshopper Script was created to help parametrizes Arena Castelão from Fortaleza, Brazil to recreate the stadium by building the “bowls”, structure system, facade, and roof. This script is a base to help create other stadiums parametrically and collect data that help understand multiple stadiums like seating and solar analyses.

STADIUM “BOWL”

After “bowls” were creat scripted extracted data a seatings of the bowls.

Script is able to create a to show the distance be corners, center field, and average distance and is export into an excel she

Field of Play was created first to start the stadium. After adjusting the field, an offset was created from the field of play to create an elliptic shape to start the first seats of the stadium.

Bowls were created starting with the first bowl that help determine how the rest of the bowls were made. (Script is able to add as many bowls that is needed for the stadium.)

FIELD OF PLAY

SEATING “BOWL” SCRIPT STADIUM CONTEXT

VERTICAL STRUCTUR

STRUCTURE SCRIPT Another script was created for structure, as it wanted to be separate from the initial seating script. Elliptic shape was used for the start of the outer structure rather then first row of seating.

Script shatters the elliptic shape, this creates more control over how the structure is made. Points are used to determine how much vertical supports will be created for the outer structure and vertical lines were used to help guide the construction of the structure.

After creating the guides, there were used to create the vertical structure and was used to give the structure depth with webbings and internal support for the main structure.

Roof was created by adjusting the height, pitch, and opening to control shading, water drainage, and sunlight for the field. Trusses were created to support the roof and cables as secondary structure.

Script was then used to create the facade and was built between the outer structure.

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Stadium Seating with Grasshopper Visibility is measure based on the sight line to the four corners of the pitch. These measurements help determine the viewing angle and distance from the action, influenced the overall clarity and experience from each seat. “Bowls” were created based on sections and plans of the stadiums.

Division Lines

Script Logic Field of Play

Export Data Row Division

Inner Curves Loop Row Creation

Santiago Bernabeu (Madrid, Spain) 5 “BOWLS”

Analysis Visibility

Visuals

98760 135.788794 196.469013 Distance (meters) 98761 Seating 135.877223 196.469013 98762 135.966254 196.6228 # 98763 Seating AVG_DISTANCE MAX_DISTANCE 136.055886 196.6228 1 78.464313 93.06757 98764 136.146118 196.627902 2 78.654105 93.06757 98765 136.236951 196.627902 3 78.826718 93.149231 98766 136.328384 196.766108 4 78.978766 93.149231 98767 136.420416 196.766108 5 79.107091 93.408487 98768 136.513047 196.766988 6 79.208923 93.408487 98769 136.606278 196.766988 7 79.28203 93.443348 98770 136.700106 196.874515 8 79.32484 93.443348 98771 136.794533 196.874515 9 79.336536 93.490631 98772 136.889557 196.875802 10 79.317101 93.490631 98773 136.985178 196.875802 11 79.267309 93.751406 Continue 98774 137.081396 196.959232 12 79.188677 93.751406 98775 137.17821 196.959232 13 79.083359 93.758428 98776 137.275619 196.961244 14 78.954026 93.758428 98777 137.373623 196.961244 15 78.803712 93.776115 98778 137.472222 197.013893 16 78.625889 93.776115 98779 137.571416 197.013893 17 78.444969 93.834027 98780 137.671202 197.015542 18 78.277757 93.834027 98781 137.771582 197.015542 19 78.125142 93.950605 98782 137.872554 197.042834 20 77.985867 94.076968 98783 137.974118 197.042834 21 77.858563 94.093034 98784 138.076273 197.043441 22 77.741867 94.093034 98785 138.179019 197.043441 23 77.63449 94.096304 24 77.535267 94.096304

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Allianz Arena (Munich, Germany) 3 “BOWLS”

Camp Nou (Barcelona, Spain) 3 “BOWLS”

125259 156.158642 220.291214 Distance (meters) 125260 Seating 156.234511 220.291214 125261 156.310808 220.301759 #125262 Seating AVG_DISTANCE MAX_DISTANCE 156.387533 220.301759 1 82.212205 98.586861 125263 156.464687 220.335959 2 82.401112 98.586861 125264 156.542268 220.335959 3 82.579826 98.597338 125265 156.620276 220.346322 4 82.747227 98.597338 125266 156.698712 220.346322 5 82.902231 98.909085 125267 156.777573 220.373793 6 83.043801 98.909085 125268 156.856862 220.373793 7 83.170968 98.914405 125269 156.936575 220.381636 8 83.282842 98.919615 125270 157.016715 220.381636 9 83.378633 98.919615 125271 157.097279 220.402802 10 83.457664 98.957705 125272 157.178267 220.402802 11 83.51938 99.072513 Continue 125273 157.25968 220.409509 12 83.563363 99.115923 125274 157.341517 220.409509 13 83.589337 99.231024 125275 157.423777 220.424415 14 83.597171 99.232948 125276 157.50646 220.424415 15 83.586888 99.232948 125277 157.589565 220.428581 16 83.558657 99.243531 125278 157.673092 220.428581 17 83.51279 99.243531 125279 157.757041 220.437527 18 83.449739 99.274544 125280 157.841411 220.437527 19 83.370082 99.294225 125281 157.926201 220.439845 20 83.274515 99.389936 125282 158.011412 220.439845 21 83.163836 99.429411 125283 158.097043 220.442767 22 83.038932 99.433566 125284 158.183093 220.442767 23 82.90076 99.450435 99990 145.373935 208.345443 Distance (meters) 99991 Seating 145.449043 208.351595 99992 145.524586 208.371868 # 99993 Seating AVG_DISTANCE MAX_DISTANCE 145.600566 208.377958 1 77.007429 93.824483 99994 145.67698 208.440483 2 77.143419 93.824483 99995 145.75383 208.445668 3 77.268512 93.907587 99996 145.831115 208.465143 4 77.382111 93.907587 99997 145.908833 208.470174 5 77.483701 94.162374 99998 145.986986 208.519304 6 77.572718 94.162374 99999 146.065573 208.52351 7 77.648436 94.245831 100000 146.144593 208.540784 8 77.709914 94.245831 100001 146.224045 208.54476 9 77.756053 94.481042 100002 146.303931 208.581707 10 77.785739 94.481042 100003 146.384248 208.584923 11 77.798028 94.501694 Continue 100004 146.464998 208.598869 12 77.792298 94.501694 100005 146.546179 208.601795 13 77.76835 94.570098 100006 146.627791 208.627507 14 77.723003 94.570098 100007 146.709833 208.629722 15 77.676495 94.5855 100008 146.792306 208.639491 16 77.641909 94.5855 100009 146.875208 208.641374 17 77.616256 94.809989 100010 146.95854 208.656529 18 77.597865 94.809989 100011 147.042301 208.657733 19 77.585345 94.842424 100012 147.12649 208.66276 20 77.577561 94.842424 100013 147.211107 208.663606 21 77.573598 94.899419 100014 147.296152 208.668612 22 77.572721 94.899419 100015 147.381623 208.668795 23 77.574339 94.926576

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Southern Europe Study Abroad Locations | Portugal: Porto, Sintra, and Lisbon Spain: Barcelona, Seville, Cordoba, Granada, Toledo, and Madrid Group of 30 Architecture and Interior Architecture students travel around Spain and Portugal and studied how urban spaces and buildings interact with its region and community and compared it to life in the United States.

Filled a 25 page sketch book for an exhibition seen below to show others what we experience and what saw in our study abroad and encourage younger students to go to this places.

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