this portfolio contains 5 projects in a A4 vertical format
bluebonnet - Lupinus texensis
orange - Citrus x Siensis
trinidad motmot - Momotus bahamensis
P[ED]AGORA
fourth year fall semester
an innovation hub model for Texas cities
PRARIE SHIFT
fourth year fall semester
product oriented design
THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE
third year spring semester
addressing an intersection of social issues through adaptive forms
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFTSHOP
third year fall semester
looking to the past in order to continue our future
EN EL CAMINO
fourth year fall semester
sometimes we need SPACE to reflect
University
P[ED]AGORA
Location: Victoria, Texas - Downtown
Instructor: Oswald Jenewin
Team: Kelvin Auwor + Ivan Olivio
Role: Design Lead + Masterplan
2024 InglesideBay exhibitionCommunity outreach
Selected work for exhibition at UTA Fall 2024
TOPIC: EDUCATION
Victoria, Texas, was selected as a case study to examine the challenges of limited educational access in rural areas, a condition that exacerbates inequality and entrenches cycles of poverty. This situation prompts a critical question: How can a reimagined urban model address these disparities, dismantle spatial segregation, and stem the tide of rural depopulation? In response, this project introduces the concept of the rural innovation hub—proposing it as a sustainable urbanization strategy within the New Texas Triangle. The hub aims to bridge educational gaps while also integrating essential emergency management infrastructure, fostering resilience and equitable growth.
NEW TEXAS TRIANGLE | ISSUE ANALYSIS
DALLAS FORT WORTH
AUSTIN
SITE: VICTORIA TEXAS
population: 65.53k
geography: costal plains founded:1824
University
MASTERPLAN
MESO TOOLKIT | INTERFACE
MACRO TOOLKIT | PROTOCOL
Data energy interaction
Dorm floor interaction
Vegetation and classroom interactions
University of Texas at Arlington
MICRO TOOLKIT | MODULE
Flying pod - 12’ x 6’
Vegetation module - 12’ x 12’
Classroom module - 12’ x 24’
VARIATION
VARIATION 2/
VARIATION 1/
University of Texas at Arlington
PRARIE SHIFT
Location: Lewisville, Texas
Instructor: none
Team: Shane Pellerin
Role: Designer + Fabrication
City of Lewisville’s Backyard Cottage Design Competition - Student Design Award
Phase - Schematic Design (will be built)
PRODUCT TO FIGHT FOR SUBURABAN DENSITY
“The cottage is mutuable and accepts the process of time - wear and age. It can never be said to be complete; additions may be added as more space is needed, or removed when redundant. Its fabric acquires a patina that deepends with age. Lichens grow on its stones and plants grow in their own way, establishing themselves in the crvices of the walls”- Analysing Architecture by Simon Unwint
ADU
picture: Cristian Madrid on Iphone
Neighborhood 1 analysis + response
Neighborhood 2 analysis + response
Neighborhood 3 analysis + response
University of Texas at Arlington
front elevation
axonometric plan
University of Texas at Arlington
THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE
Location: Dallas, Texas - Design district
Instructor: Sharon Oddum
Individual
Type: adaptive reuse + social housing
Selected work for exhibition at UTA Spring 2024
URBAN RENEWAL AND LATINO URBANISM
There is a pegasus in Dallas, the city in the prairies is a miracle but its origins remove the wings from the pegasus. This city was founded on the trinity river, and Dallas always wanted to conquer it either through development, or industry. When Mexicans “immigrants” first came to Dallas they adapted and lived in tents near the river, earning them the nickname of frogs, now they adopted the suburban homes of trinity groves and Dallas stepped in and built the margaret hunt bridge alongside luxury apartment complexes to displace and divide. Development has harmed the river, development has displaced communities, development of the river has been a series of failures. Despite it all the latino adopted these spaces giving them new light,, so I listen to the river and people and let them teach me
picture: Cristian Madrid on Fujifilm
site analysis
University of Texas at Arlington
University of Texas at Arlington
University of Texas at Arlington
things yearn
like plants to dirt or us to each other
to be a part of the bigger picture
like “ashes to ashes”
University of Texas at Arlington
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFTSHOP
Location: Dallas, Texas - Dallas arboretum
Instructor: Crystal Portillo + Victor Vielma
Individual
Type: Giftshop?
Selected for expo at Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden
THE IMPORTANCE OF RUINS
The Dallas Arboretum is funny, walking through it you don’t feel like you are in Dallas, it’s how I imagine central park to be, and in a way there are a lot of parallels. White rock lake was built on top of a freedman town + cemetery, on land that was stolen from native americans, it is located in east Dallas which has been a predominantly hispanic community. The park is an ideal vision of Dallas to visitors, it is what Dallas wants to be but can’t, its like paint over rust, a choice to ignore what was once there and what is there now, the national issue of burying the past an unwillingness to accept what it is, a facade to a decrepit house. We need ruins in order to work with it, our friendly facade does not make living in the house better for anyone.
picture: Cristian Madrid on Fujifilm
1909
PRE 1800
In The early 1800s Native Tall prairie grasses filled the Blackland Region. It consisted of tallgrass prairies along woodland creeks.
The relationship with the land changes from indigenous hunting to farmland cultivation. Little egypt, one of the rural communities, was a freedmans town.
POST 1911
Patches of original vegitation/ New regions created
WRL is completely full for the first time, the relationship with the land transitions as the City est. a nursery besides of the lake
1939
Everette and Nell Degoyler take up residence in “Rancho Encinal”, a Spanish colonial revival style home designed by Schutt & Scott. This stands in the southeast shore of WRL
1976-89
Degoyler estate opens the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Development is approved by city council and the garden was funded to create 17 new gardens
2023
Due to the construction of the WRL the original vegitation dwindled, Less than 1% of the Blackland ecoregion is preserved in Tejas
“Me, My, Mo”
“The critic”
“The motive”
using writing as a method of design, the collage became a crucial step in distilling ideas. Like the sythians who had no written language I arranged objects to convey messages
“Feel”
“At the limits of language”
University
site plan
component: facade
University
University of Texas at Arlington
EN EL CAMINO
Location: Eagle Pass, Texas - Camino Real bridge
Critic: Dennis Chiessa
Team: Kevin Negrete
Role: Design Lead + Conceptual Lead
Buildner Museum of Emotions edition #5 Honorable Mention
SOMETIMES WE JUST NEED SPACE TO REFLECT
For the first time in my life I drove through the border region. I passed Eagle Pass to Piedras Negras on July 4 2024. Looking to the river for the first time made me emotional, I wondered why. A few months later i found the Muesum of Emotionas competition and signed up. I used the next few weeks to explore those feelings I felt at the border. This project analyzed my relationship with the border how that extends out to collective experience. This project imagines a future where there is no more border, just its remnants. We made the border bridge a museum, repurposing the materials of border militarization to create spaces that reflect the perception or experiences of Mexican nationals to the border vs American nationals to the border.
picture: Cristian Madrid on Iphone
Language of militarization
picture: Meridith Kohut for TIME
Steel bollard re-adapted
Barbed wire re-adapted
University of Texas at Arlington
“I hadn’t lived at the border in nearly a decade I could still feel its subjectivity, this realization told me that the border experience doesn’t start or end at the border. Instead, the border is an identity belonging to anyone from or affected by the border”
- Cesar A. Lopez
University of Texas at Arlington
University of Texas at Arlington
Orange tree’s from the Huasteco region of S.L.P Mexico
SOMETIMES OUTSIDE THESE WHO WE
the bluebonnets next to
Tejas roads
the motmots song in the hills of El Sauce
THESE
thats how it feels when you are three things at once and there is only one you to occupy space
