Marco Del Rosario Rivera Selection of Works

Marco Del Rosario Rivera Portfolio

“A building is the direct carrier of spiritual values, shaper of the sensibilities of the general public which slumbers today but will awake tomorrow�

- Bruno Taut (1880-1938)

References

Pete Goche

Rob Whitehead

_Mailing Address

Architecture Department

_Mailing Address

Architecture Department

_Contact Information

Phone: (515) 520-3384

Email: goche@iastate.edu

_Contact Information

Phone: (515) 294-8276

Email: rwhitehd@iastate.edu

Iowa State Assistant Professor, Architecture

158 College of Design Ames, IA, 50011

Iowa State Assistant Professor, Architecture

158 College of Design Ames, IA, 50011

Marco Del Rosario Rivera June 21st 1995, Mexico City, Mexico Currently located in Westmont, IL 60559 Phone: (630) 312-9873 Email: markuribolo@gmail.com

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educational background _Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

5 Year Architecture- Proffesional Degree _Tongji University, Shanghai, China (2018- 18 Best Architectural School in the World via ArchDaily )

College of Architecture and Urban Planning _Hinsdale Central High School, Hinsdale, Illinois

General Studies

2013-2018 2018-2018

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2009-2013

work experience

August 2015-Present _Iowa State College of Design Architectural Reviewer

Frequent architectural reviewer at multiple architectural studio levels June 2018-August 2018 _Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) Summer Intern (Shanghai)

Intensive summer internship working on multiple projects on all different phases of design October 2017 _RR3 Exhbition & Workshop Curated by Peter P. Goche & Catie Newell Participant in exhibition and workshop developing installation

May 2017-August 2017 _Wight & Company Architectural Intern (Darien, IL)

Summer internship program working on projects from Schematic to Contruction Drawings August 2015-17’-December 2015-17’ _Iowa State Design Core Mentor

Mentor in a Freshman Level Design Studio providing feedback and teaching design principles September 2017-October2017 _Invision Architectural Photographer

Photographed Allen Hospital lovated in Cedar Rapids, IA

May 2016-February 2018

_Iowa State Memorial Union Building Manager

Oversee student employees, event room planning _The Salt Company Student Leader

Lead small group, mentor peers

August 2014-February 2018

architectural awards

_2018 Beckman Scholar Award

Scholarship awarded to one undergrad and one grad student to study at Tongji University in Shanghai and an opportinutiy to work overseas

_CSI Competition Award - Second Place

Architectural competition for outstanding ability in synthesizing and presenting the wide range of technical aspects of an integrated architecture project

_H. Kennard Bussard Award - Honorable Mention

Fifth year architectural competition for outstanding ability and creativity in the architecture design process

software Adobe Creative Suite _Adobe Photoshop CC _Adobe Illustrator CC _Adobe In-Design CC

skills BIM

_Autodesk AutoCAD _Autodesk Revit _Rhinoceros

Arts

_Physical Model Making _Conceptual Sketching _Photography

Linguistics _Spanish _English

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June, 2018 August, 2018

Intership overview:

Over the past summer I had the opportunity to intern at SOM in Shanghai, China. In my time there I had the chance to work on a big variety of projects and had hands on experience making concepts, modeling, rendering, analyzing data and responding to post construction problems in design. In a short amount of time I saw a lot of growth in my ability to think rationally and critically about a project. The high pace, serious mindset at SOM also continued to push my own mentality of being direct, simple but to the point. The work samples here are small snapshots of the kind of work I had the chance to develop for the firm.

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project: Vacare School of Metaphysics professor:

Peter P. Goche partners:

Aaron Shadlow & En-Ho Chan location:

Governos Island, New York

issued: August, 2017 review: December, 2017

CSI Competition Award - Second Place H. Kennard Bussard Award - Honorable Mention

project overview: Vacare​investigates the material/immaterial practices in the production of a school of metaphysics.

A five minute ferry ride off the southern tip of Manhattan, this program locates the school on the northwestern side of Governor’s Island looking out toward the city and Lady Liberty.

The school was inspired by the works of Josef Albers and his philosophy on how people see: “​ the cells in an individual’s eye respond, no to spots, but to bars of light or dark in a particular small region of the visual field”. I​t is understood that shapes are not important, but rather lines and the absence of lines. This premise inspired a series of mappings that abstracted Lower Manhattan and the island through a typography of lines arranged by densities, which were then translated onto a canvas that allowed the data to manifest in a new way. From these drawings, transitions and diffusions of scales became apparent themes, and driving factors in the design process for the project.

Interior Lobby

Conceptual Drawings

Iterative Drawings

Through many iterative drawings expressed t​hrough lines and absence of lines​, ​the aesthetic aim for this project became clear: diffuse the existing boundary of the island, site and ocean. ​Using these investigations we began to look at how the ocean’s six-foot tidal change could inhabit the diffusion of the island’s edge condition.​ It became apparent that the program should not be constrained by a single building, but also occupy landscape around it. The surrounding landscape consists of thin channels encased in concrete trenches, connected through subterranean tunnels back to the ocean. The channels break the boundary and diffuse the transition of water from the ocean to the island. With erosion in mind, the site is meant to evolve and transform. The same logic is followed within the building design: one must venture down a walking grade where a series of walls, begin to emerge from the ground until the entrance, twenty feet below ground level. Upon entering the building water-walls allow occupants to observe changes in water levels. These are attached to pumps that reflect the ocean’s tidal change. The contrast of the heavy concrete against the fragility of the glass water-walls, creates a sense of tension as the ocean is in constant contact with the building.

Floor Plan

Site Plan

School entrance

Interior Details

Structural Details

Interior Library

Vacare​, meaning to “free from”, submerges its users down into the landscape, architecture, and the ocean, to afford them separation from the surrounding world. This allows the building to act as a vessel for individuals to reach their own metaphysical state of being.

Interior Auditorium

project: Chombo Mobile Market

issued: January, 2017 review: February, 2017

Distribution +

Micro-Credit Loan Program professor:

Robert Whitehead partner:

Studio Project location:

Kakuma, Kenya

project overview: Our proposal may look like a hybrid of a bookmobile and a post-office—and to a certain degree it functions like one—but behind this physical manifestation lies a larger belief in the power of shared resources and local community efforts needed to support the commercial interactions and cultural exchanges found in a marketplace.

With a refugee camp as large and complex as Kakuma, we don’t believe that a successful proposal should rely upon the creation of a new “place.” It is a massive city with established patterns of community and cultural interaction and the act of building favors one location to the exclusion of others. In our opinion, the most cost-effective and sustainable “market” for Kakuma would be a helpful intervention in the supply and demand exchange that is understood and created by residents of the camp.

Instead of creating a marketplace that is defined by the physical bounds of space and materials, our market is an open-source and adaptable micro-finance loan program—one that pairs the entrepreneurial ideas of refugees with access to critical resources contained in a “Chombo” vessel box that is loaned to them. Our program will provide “boxes” filled with key start-up resources; resources that are part of a larger business plan envisioned by refugees. The center of this activity is the Mobile Market trailer. It is a place where ideas are generated / shared, where capital goods are secured and distributed, and where the goods are ultimately returned or renewed.

Typical Distribution

Box Distribution Through Site

Concept Process

Local Distribution

Flexible Space

Bookmobile Assembly

Concept Process

project: Re-Directing Growth Kigali

issued: September, 2016 review: December, 2016

professor:

Marwan Ghandour location:

Kigali, Rwanda

project overview: Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, is one of the fastest growing cities in Africa. This city has a very diverse terrain with constant changes in elevation which makes it hard to build and travel. The site that this project is located in is on the western side of the Industrial Park. This area consists of industrial buildings that were placed on the wetland. Today, this site is being abandoned and the goal of this project is to provide a solution to the future development of this area.

Through various mapping analysis several conditions stood out: *This park is next to a major highway that connects the airport to the business center; this causes traffic and pollution to be present almost at all times. *This road also goes through a neighborhood where education, industry and both lower and middle income have the possibility to interact. *It is the pattern of the city for lower income housing to build in to the wetland disturbing the habitat.

This intervention aims to create a transition space between humans and nature. In this area humans will gather and communities will thrive.

Proposed Water Collection Space

mapping analysis:

Growth

Wetland & River

1962

2016

Housing Typology

More Dense

Less Dense

Sector Typology

Industrial

Transportation

Primary Sectors

Secondary Sectors

Underdeveloped Sectors

Business Distric

Major Roads

Wetlands

Markets

Hospitals

Universities

Airport

Industrial Park

Farming

*in collaboration with: Greta Norris | Joe Hiestand | Matt Lechowicz | Luke Keeble

Site Proposal

Water Collection Section

New Highway Section

New Public Space Section

maintenance labor.

Challenging the Vernacular

professor:

Rob Whitehead partners:

Leah Kremer | Panhavuth Sar location: Leah Kremer | Marco Del Rosario Rivera | Panhavuth Sar To create a new method of mud brick making that reduces drying time, Rwanda facilitates transportation, introduces tensile strength to mud, and eases

Research: Rwandan Mud-Brick Making Techniqhe

Site

Additives

Testing

This four month research project aimed to analyze a method of construction that has existed since the beginning of construction. Inspired by a semester studio project in Rwanda out team chose to focus on this specific area to recreate the soil and build with the material in a way that benefits the user in more ways than one. In order to bring Rwanda to center Iowa we research the type of existing soil and components in the desired area, through our findings we were able to most accurately recreate Rwandan soil in Ames, Iowa by combining 50% top soil, 25% ball clay, 12.5% sand and 12.5% red clay. Having our soil ready our team began to explore different additives and shapes that would reduce drying time, ease transportation and gave the material the ability to expand; that is give it tensile strength. Through many iterations and explorations we developed a type of brick that mixed with a recycled plastic mesh bag met those goals that we had set out for the experiment. Through this short research we believe that we have tapped into a new possibility of building and designing with mud brick that is still true to its vernacular approach of being handmade and not machine made.

began: February, 2017 ended: May, 2017

Cost Analysis

Dry Time

Conversions

Land Use

20 Rwf

By reducing the amount of land needed to make the bricks and eliminating transportation cost, we have extra money for additional materials (in this case the added plastic mesh). We did not adjust for labor costs even though we think they’d be less than the new brick because it takes much less time to make. The result is a brick with the same profit margins for manufacturerers but significantly cheaper for clients.

27 Rwf House Costs Load Calculation Beam Tests

project: Bridging the Gap

issued: January, 2016 review: May, 2016

professor:

Cal Lewis partner:

Tyler Wurr location:

New York, New York

project overview: Our project, ‘Bridging the Gap’ is an entry to the Timber in the City Competition. The program consisted of designing an apartment complex with an extension to a market and a museum for the artist Andy Warhol.

The project is located in the Lower East Side of New York and in the corner of Delancey and Essex Streets.

The Lowers East Side has been an evolving neighborhood and we believe the site will play a pivotal role in the new master plan currently under development. Andy Warhol says, “I really don’t care that much about ‘Beauties’. What I really like are Talkers”. His view on this topic was the biggest driver of our design for the Timber in the City Competition. We created our design to portray the idea of talkers by creating spaces where dialogue is encouraged, where communities are formed through conversations; not only in the building but throughout the site.

We noticed a lack of spaces that provide this opportunity to converse while we visited the site, we saw this as a problem and we resolved it in our design. Creating a northern plaza we are able to funnel people and sustain them in a space where artist would be able to play and where a market could expand during the nice weather season. Providing a southern park we are able to provide seating for people, creating a destination rather than a threshold. Within the building we were able to include a rec. and lounge space on each floor where the people within the space have an opportunity to converse and create a community.

Lastly, we designed a roof where people from both towers are able to come together. The roof provides a space able to be utilized as community space while still providing views to the beautiful city of New York.

Andy Warhol Museum

Museum Plan

Typical floor Plan

Street Level Plan

Rooftop Plan

Rooftop Public Space

Southern Public Park

RR3 - Material | Immaterial Exhibition & Workshop

October 2017

curators:

Peter P. Goche & Catie Newell partner:

Greta Norris & Daniel Marley location:

Black Heritage Farms, Iowa

overview: This exhibition/workshop explored material and immaterial practices within the post-industrial context of Iowa’s agricultural scene. Installations were developed situ ar Black’s Heritage Farm just outside of Ames, Iowa to enhance student’s understanding of the professional world of diverse practices and ethics.

Installations were based on the exploration and documention of existing conditions of a given building located in the site.

Sustainble Furniture Design

March 2017 May 2017

professor:

Chris Martin materials:

Recycled 2x4, Recycled Rebar

project overview: This project is a simply designed modern bench created from recycled materials from large waste streams: wood and Steel. The first material is scrap wood from a residential construction site. Wood is one of the largest waste strams, 6.7 million tons of wood waste is generated in construction sites across the world every year. This wood serves as the main seat for the bench. The other material used is scrap rebar. This rebar was acquired in construction sites and junkyards, though steel is one of the most recyled materials, with an overall recycling rate of 88% it is still scrapped when it is found in different forms, as rebar for emample. The rebar serves as the main structural frame. Both of these materials were taken out of the context for which they were intended for and were given a new designed purpose.

photography: