A LITTLE HELLO. I'm Jerico Gallardo, a Bachelor of Architecture graduate from Bulacan State University (2018–2025). Before that I studied Digital Arts at STI College Malolos, graduating with honors — which is probably why I care as much about how a drawing feels as how it works. Think of this as a casual flip-through rather than a formal presentation: a thesis agri-hub, the trading post inside it, and a two-storey house rendering project from my third year. Each page has the boards, plus a few words on what I was thinking.
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01 AGRINNOVATION AN AGRI-HUB IN NUEVA ECIJA
My thesis project, done with two co-proponents (Loise Daniel A. Garcia and Nestor N. Jose Jr.) for Architectural Design X at BulSU. Nueva Ecija is the Rice Granary of the Philippines, yet farmland around San Leonardo keeps getting nudged out by commercial and residential development. The Agri-Hub is our answer: a place for farmers, researchers and agripreneurs to produce, process, learn and sell — all in one community-driven complex. The concept came from something very familiar — the woven farm basket, a symbol of abundance and togetherness. You can see it in the lattice facades, the shading elements, and the way spaces are meant to grow in phases.
“Architecture should not stop at buildings, but rather cultivate the future where nature and human needs are in harmony.”
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CONCEPT
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SITE DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Where the hub sits and why: close to schools, farm resorts and fuel stops, with river and road access, and a straight run down to Manila. The plan (1:300) lines buildings up with sun and wind — breezes arrive from the south-east — and the travel maps show how San Leonardo can become a trade route between Palayan, Muñoz, Gapan and Cabanatuan.
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TRADING POST
Zooming into the Agri-Hub, the trading post is where the money moves: a trading hall with farmer stalls, co-op booths, a kiosk area
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private parking behind the stalls, and the target users — visitors, students and farmers — all get a way in.
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and a fertilizer & seed corner, backed by storage and a processed-goods and handicrafts section. Public parking sits out front,
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03 TRADING POST PERSPECTIVES
This is where the floorplan comes alive. The main building wears the woven-basket idea on its facade, with a timber-and-lattice ceiling inside the hall, while the smaller pieces around it are kept light and friendly: an outdoor café, a dark retail shop, a flower shop draped in greenery and a row of open timber stalls.
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04 TWO-STOREY RESIDENTIAL BSAR-3C
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PROPOSED DESIGN
A change of pace: this one was a rendering project. The floor plans were already given beforehand, so the challenge wasn’t designing the layout — it was bringing it to life. The plans show a home on a 10 × 15 metre lot: lanai and garden up front, a garage with a ramp, an open kitchen, dining and living area plus a guest room downstairs, and two bedrooms, a master suite with walk-in closet and a street-facing balcony upstairs. My part was turning those lines into the facade render, the master bedroom view and the material palette (chevron wood, weathered boards, textured walls) you see on the board.
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MASTER BEDROOM I N T E R I O R
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Last stop, and my favourite corner of the house: a calm bedroom where the chevron-wood headboard does the talking. Soft grey walls, dark timber flooring and a few geometric frames keep it quiet, while the big windows pull in the afternoon light.
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