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SOUTH BEACH LIBRARY Redefining City Edge

YACHT/EL Resilient Hotel

WORKFORCE HOUSING Mixed-use Development

INFILL HOUSING Micro-Apartments in Miami Fabric

CRYSTALIZED PAVILLIONS Urban Intervention

SOLOMONIC TROPHY Architectural History Object

Concept Development | Floor Plan

Design Proposal| Urbanism Culminating the end West side of Lincoln Road, the library faces a water’s edge while marking the limit of the city. The project seems to be inextricably bound to its context, from the physical, natural and built, as well as social surroundings. It’s design is interpreted as an exploration of procession and its edge boudndaries acting as a threshold. Surrounding architectural entities along the bayfront express an additional sense of liberty within its design. To an extent, this project reclaims this preceded autonomy by stepping away from the orthogonal design, emulated thorughout the lowrise residencies in the area, and exploring a smoother transition between walls and its connections. As the building reaches the water, it’s shape gains more independence as it integrates with nature while neglecting the formality of the city grid. Residencies lie to its immediate North side, claiming a more formal expresion in its façade, that gains autonomy with closer proximity to the open space on the South.

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Program: A) Courtyard B) Bar C) Gift Shop D) Bathroom E) Storage F) Elevator G) Lobby H) Front Desk I) Administration

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Central Atrium | Façade Book maintenance and protection against environmental conditions becomes an initial concern when designing a library, promoting the implementation of indirect lighting strategies. Its design responds with slightly increasing cantilevers as the floors progress vertically, focusing in casting shadows where book shelve areas exist. The program contains several sets of stairs within the core of the library, as a void increases in square footage as it goes up each level. Ultimately reaching the largest void in the form of a skylight, that provides direct light for the open space for vertical circulation as well as indirect light for the book keeping zones. Reflective glass windows, following the edge softening condition previously established, surround the building where sitting areas lie. This program arrangement allows for the reading areas to receive the majority of direct snlight while the bookshelves rest protected behind indirect lighting.

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Space Organization | Vertical Circulation Cores As the set of cental stairs dominate the space on each floor, they also individualize spaces, allowing for fluent program within the same floor. As bookshelves are kept on both laterals of each floor, the core separates possible children centred spaces, from more silent spaces. Bookshelves themselves also act as noise reduction devices through the layers of the shelves. A help desk is located on the second floor, immediate after finishing the first set of stairs. Starting from this level on, the floors interconnect through several sets of staris within the same floor. After contacting help on the desk, a set of stairs lead you up one floor to where periodicals and critically aclaimed books lie as well as a

separate set of stairs that lead you two stories up, directly to the children’s book zone. This interweaving of stairs promote interaction within inhabitants, quick access to specific book zones as well as seclusion and privacy within said locations. Directly positioned against the north building, lies the main egress core for vertical circulation, containing two separate staircases and a main elevator. This lateral also contains services and storage spaces that reflect in a more solid manner on the facade as well as repeating within every floor without the opposing cantilevering conditions. Referencing back to the formality of surrounding buildings and the library’s reaction to it.

SOUTH BEACH LIBRARY

Program: A) Coffee Shop B) Retail Space 01 C) Storage D) Courtyard E) Bathroom F) Backyard G) Carriage house

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Program: A) Coffee Shop B) Retail Space 01 C) Storage D) Courtyard E) Bathroom F) Backyard G) Carriage house Second Floor Plan

Statement | Site Plan

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YACHT/EL --------------------------------------------------------------------Marina at Biscayne Bay Path Miami Beach, FL 33139 Prof. Claudia Busch

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Site Analysis | Form Finding

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FORM FINDING: MIAMI BEACH NAUTICAL CHART

A) Building Offseting B) Corner Point Generation C) Land Edge D) Open Spaces

Site Overview | Phenomenological Expressions Located on the West waterfront of Miami Beach, the project intended to respond to the current crisis of sea level rise as primary focus. An in depth study of current sea levels and specific site depths were considered in order to generate a design strategy. The edge condition of the site allowed for a condition study on the existing buildings along the water front. The West edge of the city is comprised of high-rise residential condominiums with complete autonomy within their design in contrast to the smaller scale of the low-density residential buildings within the city grid. The zoning allows for these residences to claim authority and hierarchy as they provide Miami Beach’s first image as inhabitants

enter the city through the cause way. Considering the layout and organization provided by these buildings, a series of form finding analysis were generated through phenomenological expressions of the site. Diagrams demonstrate how an aereal view of the edge translated into design. Existing building edges were offseted, corridors, entrances and open spaces that could serve as connection to the site were augmented as well as existing voids and framed views within the existing ground floor of the residences. Graphical representation of these phenomenological experiences allowed for the discovery of the possibilities that could emerge in order to tackle resiliency within the site.

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Post-Digital Graphics | Experiences Within the site analysis production we encountered a method of representation that allowed for understanding of what phenomenas the site provided as well as which ones could be introduced. This being a post-digital representation approach. The movement focuses on the implementation of raw materials and representations that opposes the culture of digital photorealistic rendering. The intrinsic nature of the images produced translated the phenomenological aspects extracted from the site as well as providing a guide to what the project would become.

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Phenomenological expressions previously translated into dots and lines merged with the graphical representation of post-digitalism allowed for the understanding of our aim within this resilient extension of the city edge. Forces generated through building corridor voids and framed views within the existing residences translated into what would become the larger masses and longer extensions of the city. Opposed to smaller land pockets where the existing buildings would stand out, allowing balance within the residences and the proposed program. Produced images represent how the proposed city extension intends to introduce a new relation between inhabitants and the water, pointing out the fact that the poroject tackles future predictions within sea level rise. The project intends to shift the negative perspective of sea levels by embracing water conditions throughout the site, thus creating a connection between water and the inhabitants. New levels would be generated within the site, creating a new infrastructure that maximizes the inhabitants experiences around water. The project evolved into an urbanistic intervention that would serve as a resilient boardwalk for the general public to experience after the expected sea level rise takes over the city of Miami Beach. Phenomenological Diagram

Concept Development | Urban Intervention

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Design Concept | Resilient Urbanism The Yacht/el proposal comprises the idea of a hotel, within an urbanistic intervention, that would thrive within the upcoming years as sea level rises. Resiliency was approached through the implementation of three key concepts that would shape this city extension. Pilotes, mangroves and buoyancy. The intervention would start with an extended boardwalk, comprising retail and commercial spaces as public areas, that would stand entire on pilotes. Sea-level rise research shows an expected approximate of 6ft rise, with a 2ft variance during king tide, that

allowed the determined height of the pilotes in order to be resilient with these 2100 expectations. Mangroves would serve as an additional layer that would protect the site from storm surges and flooding as well as developing an innovative experience for the inhabitants to experience within the intervention. The final layer would comprise the more private areas of the project, thus including the hotel and its ammenities, that would be resilient through the use of buoyancy. These elements would innovate for future resilient possibilities within the city.

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FLOATING CINEMA Plan | Section

Urban Experiences | Water Relation Within the components of the project, a series of public islands are introduced for general public to experience. A floating cinema would provide an innovative space for inhabitants to watch movies at night while experiencing the sensations of being on the water. This would also allow for small yachts to park and enjoy the movies from the boat’s perspective. The screen element is to stand in pilotes with a mechanical hydraulics system that could adjust depending on current sea level conditions while the small island would be independently bouyant. During the day, the cinema could serve as a floating park for the general public to enjoy the experience of a buoyant park.

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PROGRAM: A) Sitting Area B) Open Green Spaces C) Pop-up Bar D) Movie Screen

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RESILIENT RESTAURANT&MARKET Plan | Section

Urban Demands | Commerce Residential zone along the water edge lacks commercial spaces for residents of the zone. The resilient restaurant & market intends to provide, as stated, new commercial spaces for residents and general public to buy products as well as experience a restaurant experience through an innovative floating experience. Seating areas in the form of steps surround the small island for inhabitants to experience the higher points of the space. The market / restaurant space lies in a decreased platform that, when sitting, allows the line of sight to align with the water line. The program proposed to enhacne the inhabitants interaction with water while providing a new perspective of it from eye level.

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PROGRAM: A) Market B) Restaurant Space C) Bar D) Surroundig Seating

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ROOM ISLES Floor Plans

PROGRAM: A) Pool B) Lounge Area C) Spa / Relaxation Areas D) Pool Bar

Hotel Concept | Exclusivity Within the wide range of public program introduced by the urbanistic intervention, lies a zone dedicated exclusively for guest of the Yacht/el. Although general public can access the previously mentioned ammenities, the furthermost area of the intervention is occupied by the private areas of the hotel. These include a series of private isles where only hotel guests gather to enjoy exclusive pools as well as lounging areas. The room isles focus on providing guests with relaxation areas on what becomes the furthest point within the new edge of the city. Relaxation zones and a private spa

are kept within an enclosed space within the island as well as providing a bar in the middle of the pool. The island serves as a connecting point between the rooms, which are located on an outer layer. The Yatch/el contains 21 individual rooms which the guests can access through the boardwalk as well as through small boats. The rooms act as yachts themselves in their composition and design, while generating an innovative way to experience a stay on the water. The concept merges and enhances the experience of being on a boat with unique hotel ammenities.

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Room Design | Yacht Experience PROGRAM: A) Top Deck B) Shower / Spa C) Main Entrance D) Skylight B

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The concept behind the design of the rooms is based on individual minimalistic pods that would explore the simplicity of how a yacht cabin can act as an innovative hotel experience. At first glance, the rooms provide the sensation of a floating compressed wood raft with a dominating palm tree as surface of the unit. Two glass skylights can be seen embedded on a hardcover top, surrounded by walkable wood panels. Descending several steps leads you to an open shower/spa, which explores a more open concept of a typical hotel shower. The room’s main entrance is provided through a small glass panel that can be pushed back in order to reveal the stairs leading to the interior bedroom, while a secondary entrance is located at the shower level. The entrance resembles the condition of a yacht’s entrance from the exterior into the cabin and the sensation of descending into a space that is ultimately under water. The room exterior showcases the approached idea of minimalism through its simplicity in material choice and the serenity of nature introduced by the palm tree as the standalone hierarchical piece.

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Cabin Concept | Nature Connection The Yacht/el rooms provide guest with an innovative experience to connect with nature through the simplicity of its elements. The top deck implements a small shaded area under a palm tree, stimulating a resemblance to beach elements. While setting teh ambiance for the rooms, its integral contribution relies in the unit’s structure. The room’s floor plan locates the bedroom as well as bathroom and shower area comprised on one half of the unit, impulsing a single-sided weight that would set the buoyant unit off balance. Bouyancy relies on the proportional distribution of

weight. The palm tree and its components allow for a balanced distribution of weight within the floor plan, making buoyancy possible within the units. Inside the units, the bedroom is comprised within an offsetted shape of the unit. A window disrupts this shape as it generates a space for guests to lie and get in contact with its surroundings. The water level reaches the middle of said window, allowing inhabitants to experience the intermediate level in between the water’s surface and under level. This allows for natural light to breach the room in addition to a skylight.

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Interior Design | Furniture

A) Shower / Spa B) Bathroom C) Bedroom D) Closet / Storage E) Relaxation Space

The project devotes to providing its inhabitants a relationship with nature through several innovative manners, the interior design of the room is no different. The rooms come equiped with custom designed furniture that wraps around the interior walls and floors, generating wall decor, steps and tables. Its design is derived from the ambiance provided by the room window, as the waves breach into the room and reflect on the interior design. The steps where the window is located are designed to reflect movement that is then translated into the walls and ultimately shaping the bed area.

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WORKFORCE HOUSING --------------------------------------------------------------------6201 NW 17th Avenue Miami, FL 33130 Prof. Henry Rueda

Section | Park Floor Plans

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WORKFORCE HOUSING

Design Proposal | Community Integration The site is situated in the streets of Liberty City, in a medium density residential area. The plan consisted in introducing affordable hosing into the city fabric while exploring architectural systems, structural, environmental, life safety, assembly and enclosure on building form and MEP systems into the design process. The building was to create a mixed use, residential and retail, program while introducing the community. The building attempted to tackle the lack of interaction within the immediate city components, as well as integrating the upcoming inhabitants of the residential levels. A park is introduced occupying the first two stories of the building. Creating an integral addition to the fabric of the city as well as providing retail in the South-West corner of the ground level. The building plans to contribute to the ciziten’s

intentions as two surrounding parks within the site recently got cleaned as a community initiative to activate public spaces within the city. The heart of the park is located on second floor which creates an entirely open space with vegetation for to sit and lay down while having a higher view. From this location, the inhabitants face a 24ft concrete wall in the interior of the park from which movies are to be projected during night activities. This allows for families within the community to meet and interact while kids shifting the perception of danger associated with parks within the zone. A central atrium is carried along the core of the building, introducing light to the park through 1,296sqft of void space, from the ground level to the upper levels. Thus creating a connection between the lower public space and the residential spaces.

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Residential Levels | Apartment Conditions Three upper level comprise the residential levels, containing 16 single bedroom apartments, 7 two-bedroom units and 2 three-bedroom suites. The space design within the rooms is extracted from the desire to explore the open plan, reflecting the initial intentions to promote interaction within the communit as well as within the families. The floor plans tackle the concept of what a door is and how it delivers its purpose as well as how it is represented and interpreted within design. Thin corridors would lead the inhabitants into their respective rooms, withouth the use use of a physical door separating the room from the public spaces. Privacy is generated through the use of the corridors as well as generating sub-spaces in between public and private spaces as a transitional part of the inhabitant’s walkthrough. As openess is promoted, bathrooms and

wardrobe closets are the only spaces integrating physical doors in order to provide privacy. A wall core located in the center of each room generates the enclosure needed to separate the public versus the private space as the corridors to access the rooms are located in the outer walls of each apartment. The space arrangement allows for each unit to integrate their own balcony as the majority of the units are located on the laterals of the building. The central zone of the residential levels is reserved for a private residential park that surrounds the central void. This core allows for the residents to visually interact with the inhabitants within the public park on the ground floor. Corner balconies, generated in the North-West zone of each residential floors, and internal stairs within the park intent to maximize resident’s interaction.

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Integrated Building Systems | Façade Comprehensive plans, including mechanical, electrical, plumbing and structural, were generated in order to communicate an in depth understanding of the building conditions. The mechanical shows how each apartment would be provided with a fan room containing individual air handling units as well as how the air is supplied and returned. Exhaust ducts are provided to each kitchen, as well as to every bathroom without windows, in order to release the air to the exterior. Structural plan schedules demonstrate the count as well as type of structural element needed in order to withstand the calculated weight of the loads within the building. Girders, joists and columns are

named and marked within the plan, specifying the location and span of each element within each floor. Elevation demonstrate how vertical elements would dominate the façade while integrating vegetation as an extention of the park. The panels extend inside the interior spaces of the public park while also providing light during night time. An irrigation system is to be installed within the façade in order to collect the water distributed to maintain the vegetation healthy throughout the year. Behind it lies a metal mesh panel that would allow light as well as air to enter the space. The mesh and vegetation will allow for comfortable temperatures within the first and fifth floor.

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Integrated Building Systems | Façade Previously mentioned architectural systems, such as mechanical and structural, are represented in the sectional axonometric for better understanding and representation. These systems are hidden within a drop ceiling that runs along the room and kitchen, leaving corridors and living rooms at a higher ceiling height. Electrical plan reveal the drop ceiling in a darker grey tone, while pointing out the proposed lighting elements and conditions to illuminate the public corridors as well as within the apartments. Parking levels, located within the fourth and fifth levels, as well as the open space at the park on the second level, are excluded from the drop ceiling. Thus revealing the I-Beams

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INFILL HOUSING

INFILL HOUSING --------------------------------------------------------------------2390 NW 79th Street Miami, FL 33147 Prof. Juan Contin

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Program: A) Coffee Shop B) Retail Space C) Elevator D) Bathroom E) Courtyard F) Storage G) Backyard H) Carriage house

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Design Proposal| Urbanism Located within the “detached single-family housing” of the Miami fabric, the project aims to introduce an entirely new model for living within the area - Infill urbanism. Within the height constrained small lots of the existing urban fabric, micro housing can be introduced in order to embrace the dimension limits while introducing a unique configuration for the zone. After witnessing and analyzing the compressed model for living in Savannah, Georgia, the project intends to generate infill apartments that communicate within the lot. Considering the laterals of each floor, allows for the production of shapes that, when mirrored, creates a well of light to breach the apartments on every floor.

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Natural Light | Apartments Containing 2 one-bedroom and 1 two-bedroom apartments on the upper floors, the design analyzes how a light tunnel can be generated at the core. An open plan dominates within the micro apartments as the living room separates the room side from the kitchen. Through the generated void, the design maximizes light entrance at the core, the living room, as other wise the infill condition wouldn’t allow for windows or natural light to come in from the connected laterals.

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Carriage House | Corner Conditions

Vertical Circulation

Program | Cores

The exploration of the Savannah living conditions, allowed for the prevalence of “carriage houses” and how this condition can thrive within the restraints of infill housing. 2 one-bedroom units are comprised within a two story carriage house on the back of each building infill. They can be accessed through a shared garden on the ground floor plan. The detached condition of the carriage house generates an open space between both buidings, increasing wind circulation as well as light entrance for both properties. The language in the micro apartments carries on at a smaller scale to the carriage house as the building serves as an extension of the apartments, as opposed to a separate entity. As the infill condition is repeated in rows, it generates two different living conditions within the integrity of the lot, a repeated middle condition and a corner condition. The generated shapes for the existing balconies are extended and cantilevered within the corner conditions as they allow for square foot addition within the residential floor plans. Light entrance can be maximized as the lacking of a repeted infill on one side allows for the addition of windows on the newly open corner façade. Additionally, this grants an opportunity to generate a side entrance on each side of the lot.

INFILL HOUSING

Structure

Infill Condition

Corner Condition

Exploded Axonometric

Bedroom Exploded Axonometric

INFILL HOUSING

Apartment Configuration | Façade Within the longitudinal condition of the apartments, the space layout is replicated through the floors as the light tunnel breaks the space in two halfs, allowing spacial individualism within the open plan apartments. An egress on both sides, North and South, allow immediate access to the apartments from the elevator as well as complying with the required distance for life safety within the space dimensions. The two-bedroom penthouse allows more freedom and space manipulation of the lower floor, according to the inhabitant’s preferance, as the bedrooms are placed on the upper levels. As no doors separate the rooms in this micro apartment, each one is placed in

opposing mezzanines on the second floor, allowing distance and privacy within the open plan. The façade mirrors the shapes generated on the window as they extrude in different degrees through the floors. This condition allows for additional windows within extruded spaces in the apartment façades, while simultaneously generating balconies for the upper level spaces. This permitted the integration of an external balcony on one side and an internal library on the opposing side, dedicated to views and self-reflection. The extruded components in the façades also allowed for natural light entrance within the enclosed spcaes generated by the infill conditions.

Site Plan | Statement

CRYSTALIZED PAVILLIONS

CRYSTALIZED PAVILLIONS --------------------------------------------------------------------624 Ocean Ct, Streets 6th 7th. Miami, FL 33139 Collaboration with: Johana Mendoza Prof. Eric Goldenberg

Day Render

CRYSTALIZED PAVILLIONS

Section | Renders

Design Concept | Light Play Located within the streets of Miami Beach’s commercial area, the project strives to revitalize the service alleys that run parallel to the city’s most populated drive. The current conditions of the service alley provide a sense of discomfort to its inhabitatns, considering it’s lighting conditions and lack of maintenance within such narrow space. The project intends to improve these conditions through a series of pavillions that would run above the space, allowing for current service transit to continue. These pavillions would attract tourist, as well as locals, through a series of innovative art galleries and light venues in order to shift the inhabitant’s perception of the alley as well as bringing new program to the site. It’s deisgn its derived from a series of site analysis that focused on views and perspectives of the alleys through lighting conditions and generated shadows.

Three light venues will serve as main galleries, containing innovative light displays that incorporate its visitors through interactive displays. The crystalized design of the spaces is manipulated in order to enhance light interaction and reflection within each specific venue, as the architecture of the pavillions become vital part of the exhibition. The design its carried at a smaller scale through a series of corridors that connect the pavillions as well as providing acces to the street level. As light runs through the floors and canopies of the corridors, it becomes the main light source for the street level. These spaces are meant to serve as a way to change the people’s perspective towards the city alleys, as current conditions reflect a sense of unsafety within such populated area. The project considers ligh as a symbol of clarity and safety within spaces.

CRYSTALIZED PAVILLIONS

Section

Exhibitions & Installations |Materiality The project’s main focus is to serve as an “Arts & Design Incubator”, as it would serve as an innovative experience for the visitors as well as for the exhibiting artists. As a potential extention of Art Basel, Miami, the project would house the works of local artists as well as international talent. One of the light venues will serve as a fixed gallery, where light elements would be permanently installed within the walls in order to generate the experience. The projectors would serve as mediator for the light displays to be featured while allowing flexibility withing its programming. Meaning that the projectors are permanent but the light display would vary depending on the exhibitions and seasons. The architecture of the pavillions itself become part of the art exhibition, as interactive walls and floor panels dominate this venue. The corridors connecting the galleries becomes

as much part of the exhibition itself, as inhabitants become submerged within the lights running through the pavillion’s structure. Transparent floors allow for a unique experience within these passages, as the space opens up to views of the ceiling as well as the illuminated shell structure underneath the slabs. The structure of the project runs along the framework of the triangulated shapes, attaching itself to the existing walls as well as generating pilars within certain distances. Lighter non-structural steel elements are integrated within certain points of the framework to generate openings as well as a shift of materiality within the outter layer. Perforated aluminum sheets are to be attached to within specific instances of the corridors, allowing for breeze to enter and ventilate the space as well as allowing natural sunlight.

CRYSTALIZED PAVILLIONS

Day Render

CRYSTALIZED PAVILLIONS

Day Render

CRYSTALIZED PAVILLIONS

Day Render

CRYSTALIZED PAVILLIONS

Night Render

CRYSTALIZED PAVILLIONS

Interior Render

CRYSTALIZED PAVILLIONS

Gallery Interior Render

CRYSTALIZED PAVILLIONS

Exterior Night Render

CRYSTALIZED PAVILLIONS

Polaroid Render

Thesis Presention

THESIS PRESENTATION

The Future of Libraries through Brick Exploration -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Forsyth Park, 2 W Gaston Street Savannah, Georgia Prof. Henry Rueda

SITE LOCATION + ANALYSIS + CONCEPT AN EXPLORATION ON SPACE IMPOSITION WITHIN THE SITE 31'

32'

33'

34'

35'

INDIVIDUAL STUDY SPACES

36'

37'

BACK OF HOUSE 38'

39'

40'

41'

42'

43'

SUPERIMPOSITION

SITE ANALYSIS + CONCEPTUAL SECTION / PLAN AN EXPLORATION ON SPACE IMPOSITION WITHIN NATURE

1 - ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOARCHIVES COLLECTION OF ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS, CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF LOCAL SAVANNAH HISTORIC LANDMARKS.

2 - WALL INSTALLATIONS SERIES OF INSTALLATIONS DERIVED FROM SURROUNDING LANDSCAPE CONTEXT THROUGH TREE CONNECTIONS. LOCATED THROUGH BUILDINGS AND NATURE.

3 - STUDY ROOM / ACTIVITY SPACE SPACE FOR GROUP STUDYING. OPEN FLOOR PLAN SERVES AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO USE THE BUILDING AS AN EXTENSION OF MAIN AUDITORIUM WHEN SPECIAL EVENTS OCCUR.

4 - MAIN AUDITORIUM EH<:E IAHMH@K:IA>K L PHKD PBMABG F:BG >QAB;BTION HALL AND STEPS THAT SERVE AS PUBLIC STUDY SPACE AND REFLECTION ZONE WHILE INTEGRATING ART PHOTOARCHIVES. SPACE FOR EVENTS WITHIN SPECIAL OCCASIONS.

5 - MAIN STUDY BUILDING SPACE WITH STEPS THAT INTEGRATE ART PHOTOARCHIVES AND A SERIES OF TABLES FOR STUDYING. UNDERGROUND LEVEL INCORPORATES DARK ROOM SPACES DEDICATED FOR PHOTO REVELATION.

6 - RECEPTION / BACK OF HOUSE MAIN RECEPTION SPACE WHERE ACCESS TO PODS IS GRANTED AND DIRECTIONS ARE PROVIDED FOR INCOMING VISITORS. SERIES OF OFFICE AND CONFERENCE SPACES FOR LIBRARY STAFF.

7 - STUDY ROOMS SERIES OF PRIVATE RESERVED STUDY ROOMS AS WELL AS REFLECTION / STUDY SPACES IN CORE SPACE. ACCESS TO ROOMS CAN BE GRANTED FROM RECEPTION BUILDING.

8 - VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY ROOM COLLECTION OF VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOARCHIVES, INCLUDING A SERIES OF LOCAL SAVANNAH PHOTO-DOCUMENTATION FOR FUTURE STORAGE.

9 - RECEPTION / BACK OF HOUSE TWIN RECEPTION BUILDING WHERE ACCESS TO PODS IS GRANTED AND DIRECTIONS PROVIDED FOR INCOMING VISITORS. LARGEST STORAGE SPACES FOR LARGE SCALE PHOTOGRAPHS.

MASTER PLAN + PROGRAM ORGANIZATION AN EXPLORATION ON SPACE IMPOSITION WITHIN NATURE

BRICK DESIGN + CONSTRUCTION AN EXPLORATION ON SPACE IMPOSITION WITHIN NATURE

FLEMISH BOND *(+ 6 * & )

COMMON OR AMERICAN BOND (DOUBLE) *(+ 6 * & )

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT DIAGRAMS

ALEATORY BOND *(+ 6 * & )

COMMON OR AMERICAN BOND *(+ 6 * & )

STRUCTURAL AXONOMETRIC * 6 * & )

FLOOR PLANS + RENDERED SECTION AN EXPLORATION ON SPACE IMPOSITION WITHIN NATURE

UNDERGROUND LEVEL - MAIN AUDITORIUM *(*/ 6 * & )

GROUND LEVEL - MAIN AUDITORIUM *(*/ 6 * & )

GROUND LEVEL - STUDY ROOMS *(*/ 6 * & )

GROUND LEVEL - OFFICE BUILDING *(*/ 6 * & )

FLOOR PLANS + RENDERED SECTION AN EXPLORATION ON SPACE IMPOSITION WITHIN NATURE

UNDERGROUND LEVEL - MAIN STUDY BUILDING *(,+ 6 * & )

GROUND LEVEL - MAIN STUDY BUILDING *(*/ 6 * & )

GROUND LEVEL - PHOTOARCHIVES ROOM *(*/ 6 * & )

GROUND LEVEL - STACKS ROOM *(*/ 6 * & )

Statement

SOLOMONIC TROPHY --------------------------------------------------------------------Architectural History Object Competition Prof. Jorge Rigau

SOLOMONIC TROPHY

Physical Model

Competition| Design Development As part of the Architectural History Design Competition, developed and coordinated by Architect Jorge Rigau FAIA, participants were required to redefine the concept of a “trophy” and translate it into an innovative design within architectural history. The requirements comprised the final development of an original definition for the word, a link within architectural history and the production of an innovative design that incorporated both. Within redefining the concept of a trophy, I concluded that “A trophy is an inanimate object that celebrates growth and movement through a static state”. The definition came together by analyzing the progression of the trophy. It’s an object initially obtained by congratulatory means, result of a produced action, which is ultimately displayed, in the means to commemorate through the static display of the object. Within architectural history, the concept of the Solomonic column resembled the idea expressed within my generated definition. This eastern motif reflects the notion of an object that celebrates movement, as its spiral shaft progresses upwards in a helical fashion, while its properties are designed to remain static. The integration of the solomonic column within the design of a contemporary trophy, traduced into an object that resembles growth and movement through its spiral condition while retaining a sense of lightness and questionable balance. The Archimedean spiral was studied in order to create a trophy that orbits around a pivot point while loads are distributed in order to ultimately create balance. Mahogany wood was cut into long rectilinear objects, representing staticity and density of material, that simultaneously translate a sense of movement when strategically placed.

SOLOMONIC TROPHY

Physical Model

SOLOMONIC TROPHY

T H A N K Y O U. --------------------------------------------------------------------KEVIN MUNIZ