Summarized Portfolio 2019

Kristia Villanueva, B.Evd. Architecture Portfolio Selected works 2015-2018

Š All rights reserved, 2019.

Design-Build

Selected Concepts

Career objective: To help the city’s community by learning to build spaces mindful of sustainability and resilience.

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Tiny Studio

The Enclave

Environmental Design Year 3 _ Design + Build Fall/Spring-Summer 2016-2017 Sioux Narrows, ON Tiny Studio was made possible in collaboration with Boreal Studio and the Sioux Narrows arts community.

The intent of this project was to provide the community a number of small studio spaces for them to create their masterpieces. The Enclave was chosen of three other designs to be built on the site.

Showcasing the Site

Photo by Boreal Studio

The challenge of this project was for the artists to feel connected to the Sioux Narrows culture and community. For this instance, showcasing Ontario’s rocky beds and “photo framing” the trails on the site for the user’s view aids in introducing artists to the site. This could also inspire them in creating and also collaborating.

ROOF PLAN

SOUTH SECTION

FLOOR PLAN

Preliminary Design

Construction Construction-wise, since the structure is sited on the rocky beds of Ontario, another challenge was how to create a stable foundation. Therefore, the team used double lumber stud and steel anchors after creating pre-drills onto.the rock bed.

Situated Structure

2X6 CEDAR

CUSTOMIZED STEEL SPACER

CEDARS BOLTED IN BY STEEL BAR

STEEL PLATE WELDED ONTO SPACER

PRE DRILLED BED ROCK 2'-0" STEEL BAR BOLTED ONTO BASE PLATE

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Photo by Boreal Studio

DETAIL FOUNDATION SECTION SCALE:

3" = 1' - 0"

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UM Cycle

Display

Environmental Design Year 4 _ Design + Build Winter-Spring 2018 Winnipeg, MB

UMCycle is an organization in University of Manitoba that assembles, repairs and resell bicycles. Their aim is to promote sustainability in Winnipeg and it starts by having students to get around through using bicycles.

Anna Weier, the manager of UMCycle collaborated as the studio’s client for this project. Students were divided into groups for designing three different structures of different programmes: 1. Repair 2. Store 3. Display

Full work drawings: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O0g3qom1_ Z26yaR4E0NigipKwMjR8G4s/view

The Site The Display structure is situated in front of the existing UMCycle bike shop. The client’s aim is for the structure to be useful in “Winnipeg weather”.

The client’s intent is to focus on the structure’s ephemerality. Therefore, materials were supposed to be easier to replace or deconstruct, rather than heavily maintain.

Form Iterations

Roof Detailing

Details 3 4"

5 21"

FURRING STRIPS

FIBRE CEMENT BOARD 2X6 WALL STUD SPACED @ 24" O.C.

TAR PAPER

2X6 RAFTERS

R01

PALRUF PVC ROOF PANEL OVERLAPPED 1" PER PANEL

2X6 BOTTOM PLATE 1X6 DECKING

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METAL FLASHING

1:12

2X4 JOISTS SPACED @ 24" O.C. 2X6 RIM JOIST

4 41"

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HEAVY DUTY L-BRACKET BOLTED TO PAVEMENT 3" 4

1" 42

1" 32

METAL FLASHING

1 41"

1" 12

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DETAIL FOUNDATION SECTION SCALE:

1" = 1' - 0"

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5 38" 6"

1" 12

DETAIL GUTTER SEC SCALE:

1" = 1' - 0"

PVC ENCLOSURE STRIP SPACED @ 24" O.C.

1:12

1 4"

5 21"

3" 4

2X6 PURLINS WITH HANGER ALUNIMUM GUTTER EXTENDS 2'-6" TO NORTH OF STRUCTURE

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Construction + Site Transport In the final construction stage, the group, along with engineering consultants decided to have the structure sit on the site without any foundation. The structure was built in CAST building during the winter season and transported to the site once both halves of the structure and the claddings were built. Afterwards, we “embroidered� both halves together with the rest of the tar paper and the claddings.

Final Design

Photo credits: Violet Jiang, 2018.

The Warming Huts project (Carbuncle) wa heavily focused on student collaboration.

A charette was created on the first stage.

Then, the group chose four designs that a most feasible for construction.

Facebook: Facebook.com/carbunclewarmhut

This design was one of the selected desig to form a new mixture of concept. This then transformed into the Carbuncle after professional consultations from the studio instructors involved.

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Warming Huts Carbuncle

Environmental Design Year 3 _ Design + Build Winter 2017 Winnipeg, MB

Construction Stage Carbuncle was constructed by all the students of ED3 (2016-2017) collectively.

It was assembled in the CAST building of University of Manitoba then transported to The Forks before the Warming Hut press conference.

University Works

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Nostalgia in Architecture

Environmental Design Year 3 _ Winter 2016-2017 Professor: Dr. Eduardo Aquino Visiting Mexico created a big influence in my decision for Dr. Aquino’s challenge for his studio to create a thesis that creates a spark in our personal lives.

I lived in the Philippines until I was just a teen. Therefore, I have forgotten many parts of it. Visiting Mexico created a ghost-like memory that lingered while creating this project. I realized it was nostalgia of things that exist around me. Yes, even of Winnipeg.

Photo taken in Downtown Winnipeg + Downtown Mexico City

To begin the concept research, I created a compilation of my selected journal entries while I was a teen to present years.

Conceptual collage of programming based on the chapters in All That I Remember.

Programming

TOP OF PARAPET

14'-0"

20'-0"

14'-0"

15'-0"

15'-0"

18'-0"

14'-0"

14'-0"

15'-0"

15'-0" GROUND FLR. ELEV. 3'-0" FROM ROAD

Conceptualized Inhabitation

A sketch of programming and inhabitation of each level of the building.

Proposed Form

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Flexible Futures

Environmental Design Year 4 _ Fall 2017- Winter 2018 Professor: Lancelot Coar

Flexible Futures explores architecture’s ability to sustain itself in a city that is fleeting --both seasonally and culturally.

The site is located in Downtown Winnipeg’s Union Station, on top of the train museum almost hidden from the public.

“One of these fascinations constructs spatial assemblies where the relationships are palpable but are established more by situational associations than by formal means. An example of such a space would be the territory associated with theassembly of clues in a criminal investigatin, where the particular circumstances and the sequence of events inform the construction of a spatial consciousness.”

- Nat Chard & Perry Kulper

Tectonic Exploration This project explores how tectonics are contingent to the flexibility of both time and programming of a certain space.

My perception of my tectonic detail reminded me of cranes in construction and how they work. Therefore, I asked “What type of customized structure could be built to resemble cranes carrying different loads?”

The “crane hybrid”. This sketched was traced over a photo of a contruction site using multiple cranes to hold up loads.”

Tectonic Exploration These are images of the sketch model made to explore the bends and stretches of the previously thought-of tectonic details and connections.

New “columns�.

How will this structure stand while sus

spended from the new columns?

New “studs� for the structure.

Conceptual Collage of Inhabitation

“What can [design] do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our [mundane yet wonderful life].�

- Adam Braun