2020 Graduate Architecture Portfolio

PORTFOLIO 2020 Enrique Mendoza 1

Enrique Mendoza

Email: mendo241@umn.edu Phone: (708)582-4081 Social Media: m_enrique_m Current City: Minneapolis, MN

Experience

Awards

Software

Back to Indigenous Futures: Cultural Revitalization

The Sullivan Family Graduate Fellowship is awarded to professional degree students who show evidence of high academic achievement, demonstrated design accomplishments, may have had international travel experiences, and have had some practical professional experience.

Revit AutoCAD Rhino 3D Studio Max Inventor Fusion 360 Sketch up

University of Minnesota Graduate Research Assistant University of Minnesota Graduate Teaching Assistant The Color of Law In Architecture

University of Minnesota Graduate Research Assistant North Central Minnesota Children’s Museum

University of Minnesota Graduate Teaching Assistant Post-Pandemic Design

University of Minnesota Graduate Research Assistant Human Powered Trails Design

Romexterra Construction Fire & water Consultant

Olive Grove Landscape Design CAD Draftsman

Internship + Training Site Design Group ltd.

A two week long internship in which partners at Chicago based firm landscape architecture firm Site Design Group honed my oral presentation skills, visual skills, and technical understanding.

Education

University of Minnesota Twin Cities Masters of Architecture Candidate

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies

College of DuPage Glenn Ellyn Associates of Science in Architecture Technology

Exhibitions

Milwaukee Mobile Design Box Gallery Exhibition The Mobile Design Box is an extension of the Milwaukee Art Museum, and its mission is to create an affordable access point for under served communities. During May of 2018, Mo Zell, Associate Professor and Chair of the Architecture Department organized a SARUP gallery night. Which showcased a variety of student works from both undergraduates and graduate students. Here two of my projects were showcased for about a month.

In April of 2019, the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students, at UW-Milwaukee (NOMAS at UWM) curated a gallery entitled “More than 1 of 5”; it was part of their Next-Gen symposium. I displayed three of my undergraduate projects for two months.

Organizations NOMAS

NOMA’s mission, rooted in a rich legacy of activism, is to empower our local chapters and membership to foster justice and equity in communities of color through outreach, community advocacy, and design excellence.

AIAS The American Institute of Architecture Students is an independent, nonprofit, student-run organization providing programs, information, and resources on issues critical to architecture and the experience of education.

Sullivan Family Graduate Fellowship 2020

UWM Marcus Prize Studio 2018 Recipient A portfolio based award that paired Marcus Prize recipient, acclaimed architect, and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, with twelve of the school’s most highly regarded students to investigate the design and development of a cultural institution for Milwaukee.

UWM Super Jury 2018 Honor Award An award given to students who go above and beyond the call to action. SUPERJury is a day-long review and celebration of the best undergraduate and graduate projects in the school. Projects nominated for consideration by students and faculty, and are reviewed by three critics from across the country. The goal of SUPERJury is to foster self-reaction and stimulate a conversation about the state of architecture within the school and relationship to contemporary issues in practice.

410 Wall Mock-up 2017 Build Made possible by the International Masonry Institute. This award was given to a group of students who possessed both an understanding masonry tectonics and were able to design a unique wall system. Out of around 60 wall mock-ups 3 were ultimately selected and eventually built for display at SARUP.

Publications

UrbanMilwaukee Newspaper General media coverage, UWM architecture students, under the guidance of internationally-renowned architect Jeanne Gang and UWM professor Kyle Reynolds, presented site-specific plans at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts.

Southeast Minnesota Human Powered Trails Concept Done in partnership with the University of Minnesota’s Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, Center for Sustainable Building Research, Southeast Regional Sustainable Development Partnership, College of Design, and the City of Lanesboro. The goal of this project was to develop a series of human powered trail scenarios (hiking, snow-shoeing, cross country skiing) to connect Lanesboro to Whalan and in the future, to connect multiple towns throughout the Root River Valley to other areas in the Southeast Minnesota region.

Post Pandemic Venture Design “Innovation for the Public Good: Post-Pandemic Venture Design” was a course offered in the Summer of 2020 for students who were seeking ways to study and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on the built environment.

Region 5 Children’s Museum Concept

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The goal of this project is to help develop, record, and analyze the possibility of a Nature Play Institute either in the City of Brainerd, Minnesota or elsewhere.

Drawing +Modeling

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Energy + Information Ladybug Honeybee Diva Climate Consultant Sefaira Grasshopper

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Enrique Mendoza Selected Works 2018-2020

Competitions CSBR Projects Undergraduate Work Graduate Work

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Hi, my name is Manuel “Enrique” Mendoza, I was born in the city of Morelia, Mexico. My family & I eventually moved to the united states settling in very small town in rural Wisconsin. Wisconsin is a great place to grow up, but Chicago would offer me and my family greater opportunity.

There I would go onto complete most of my intermediate education, but I would spend most summers living in the state of Washington with family. By the time high school graduation came around, I knew that I wanted to pursue some form of higher education. I wasn’t totally sure what degree path I would take, it would only became more clear after I was rejected from all my top engineering schools.

I then decided to enrolled in a pre-architecture program offered through my local community college. It was during these early formative years that I became

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obsessed with architecture and design thinking. After my two years I was able to seemlessly transfer to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

After completing the remaining two years of my bachelors studies. I knew I wanted to continue my studies at the graduate level. I visited many campuses, but felt most at-home at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus. Where I’m currently enrolled, and am looking forward to graduating this upcoming semester.

-Enrique Mendoza

TABLE OF CONTENTS Marcus Prize Studio The Little Climber Toy UMN Materials Innovation Center Center for Sustainable Building Research Works University of Minnesota Pavilion for Health+Well-being Newburgh: Design for Play Land Relatives Studio Seattle Waste-to-Energy Plant

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UWM Marcus Prize Studio The 2018 Marcus Prize studio paired Marcus Prize recipient and acclaimed architect Jeanne Gang with SARUP students to investigate the architectural potential of a combined museum project on the Milwaukee riverfront. The design will center on the development of a cultural institution for Milwaukee that combines the Betty Brinn Children’s Museum, the Milwaukee Public Museum, and a parking structure and other amenities for the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts into a single project.

Studio: Arch 650 Term: Fall 2018 Professor: Jeanne Gang Duration: 12 weeks Institution: UWM SARUP 6 Milwaukee, WI

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Site + Urban Planning As part of the design proposal, we were all encouraged to think about the impacts a future museum type building would have on the area. We all realized that the logistics of simply dropping a building on the site wasn’t going to be enough. some form of public infrastructure had to be put in place. We looked at making padestrian crossings easier and safer. Widening and improving the existing bridge infrastructure. Reconnecting portions of the fragmented biking infrastructure. Jeanne encourged us to think not only about the front end of the building, but also its relationship to the water and what kinds of experiences we could form around local ecology. Our response was to return and replant native river plantlife. Bring people up and off the Milwaukee Riverwalk, so that they can experience a piece of the museum.

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Site + Urban Planning It was incredibly important throughout the entire design process that our building proposal provide a “museum quality” experience. As a young group of young architecture students, it wasn’t totally clear what this meant exactly. Looking back, I think it means providing our client with a building that itn’t soley represenative of them as an organization, but also the region, the community, and the people that opperate within the walls of the Museum Building at various levels.

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Rooftop Garden Oasis The Milwaukee Public Museum was really interested in continuing their green infratstructure initiatives. In their previous building they had experimented with and successfully implemented a green roof, photovoltaic panels, and a greenhouse. This was a great first step, but accessing these amenities was rather comberson and particularly divisive. As part of this proposal we suggested that this piece of the program be split up and distributed throughout the site, this way no matter what kind of ticket you decide to purchase you have an equal opportunity to experience what we refered to as a “garden oasis�.

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The Little Climber Toy Design a children’s toy that embodies the essence of play. A successful toy should be able to change as the child gets older and is fabricated using a CNC milling machine.

The Architecture of Toy Making

*Project done in collaboration with Joel Padilla*

From very early on we knew we wanted to design a very intelligent toy that would created a set of challenges for the child, and as they grew up those challenges could re-adjust giving the toy multiple layers of difficulty. This proved to be very difficult with the initial schemes, but it all became clear once we actually talked with a group of kids. They helped us stumble upon the idea of climbing up and over those goals.

Studio: Arch 420 Term: Spring 2018 Professor: Ryan Shortridge Duration: 4 weeks Institution: UWM SARUP 14Milwaukee, WI

Our final toy design is an adjustable climbing surface, with rounded holes on the front, that would allow children to create their own climbing configurations. When the child became uninterested the parent could help raise the angle of the climbing surface and the process could begin again. Our toy is small enough to be folded up and stored in a 5’x2.5’x3” space and its painted and sealed, which means it’s great for outdoor or indoor use.

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UMN Materials Innovation Center

Tiny Dancer

A joint project between the Department of Forest Resources at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, the School of Engineering at UMD, and the College of Design, the Northwoods Institute for Construction in the Anthropocene is a locus for gathering, testing and disseminating information about the history and future of wood and steel in buildings, especially contemporary issues of mass timber building practices.

Due to the involvement and investment of the City of Duluth, the Center will also serve as a community center and space for the promotion of potential futures for Duluth and the Arrowhead region.

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Steel Stud Backing

Plywood Reveal Steel Braced Frame

Steel Structure Neighboring Building

Green Pedestrian Way

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Semi-Intensive Green Roof

Steel Truss

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Student Studio: Arch 8253 Term: Fall 2019 Professor: Aaron Amosson Duration: 12 Weeks Institution: UMN College of Design Duluth, MN

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UMN Center for Sustainable Building Research Southeast Minnesota Human Powered Trails The Goal of this project is to create a series of human powered trails that connect multiple towns throughout the Root River Valley.

This project will initiate the first phase of the project, and explore feasibility methods, as well as create a master plan for the trails through engaging the local community and stakeholders in public forums.

Region 5 Children’s Museum The goal of this project is to help develop, record, and analyze the possibility of a Nature Play Institute either in the City of Brainerd, Minnesota or elsewhere. The emerging children’s museum wants to connect children, families, educators, and care-givers to the benefits of being in relationship with the natural world by creating 18the “Nature Play Institute”.

UMN Innovations for The Public Good: Post Pandemic Venture Design “Innovation for the Public Good: Post-Pandemic Venture Design” was a course offered in the Summer of 2020 for students who were seeking ways to study and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on the built environment.

Throughout the semester students worked collaboratively in interdisciplinary teams to develop a final semester project.

Students were encouraged to produce project ventures that would focus on the disruptions caused by the pandemic including food insecurity, unemployment, housing, transportation, small business, and workplace closures.

Back to Indigenous Futures The goal of this project is to help recenter indigenous and precolonial values and principles, by deploying participatory action research methods, integrating the work of humanities and humanistic social and applied sciences, preservation, teachings, and research in both Architecture and Computer Science to design mixed reality experiences that integrate physical architecture with virtual embodied simulations.

Southeast Minnesota Human Powered Trails Lanesboro, Minnesota Scenario Planning

University of Minnesota Innovation for the Public Good:

Post Pandemic Venture Design Summer 2020

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Back to Indigenous Futures: Cultural Revitalization and Sustainability

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UMN Pavilion for Health + Well-being The University of Minnesota Pavilion for Health + Wellbeing is located at the intersection of 14th Avenue and University Avenue just on the edge of the University of Minnesota’s East Bank campus.

The client in this case asked us to explore a variety of design scenarios each addressing the question of how architecture can manifest itself to support health and wellbeing in a future where net-zero/ net-positive buildings are the new normal.

Studio: Arch 8254 Term: Spring 2020 Professor: Eric Amel Duration: 7 Weeks Institution: UMN College of Design 20Minneapolis, MN

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Ecological Considerations With any project there are always places a designer wishes he had spent more time on. In the case of this project much more could have been done in terms of the site. Simply getting up and out isn’t enough,the project could have gone one step further in enhancing the sites capacity to sustain living organisms.

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Detailing The Experience The project developed formally in a manner in which it became very important to get people through the buildings as fast as possible and out onto the roof terraces to experience nature. In terms of detailing, this manifested itself in a Sleek glass railings and a seemingly endless floor finish allowed this idea to really flourish.

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NEWBURGH: DESIGN FOR PLAY This competition is a community effort co-organized by Design For Six Feet, the Awesome Newburgh Foundation, the City of Newburgh, Columbia GSAPP Hudson Valley Initiative, Dept of Small Interventions, The Fullerton Center, and the Newburgh Armory Unity Center.

Cities big and small are rapidly changing their streets, sometimes over the course of several days, to help their residents stay safe in a time of crisis and to prepare people and societies for the health, social, and economic recovery ahead.

Like many other cities, as the City of Newburgh begins to reopen, people are ready to come out of isolation: children want to play and neighbors want to re-connect. Research shows it is safer to be outdoors. Shared public space and streets are the best opportunity to be together, while maintaining physical distance.

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Studio: Independent Competition Term: Winter 2019 Duration: 2 Weeks Newburgh, New York

Functional Formgiving Being the slightly undecisive person that I am at times, it became rather difficult to pinpoint one or two concrete activities that the urban intervention could host. I knew that it needed to be a safe place for which both children and adults alike could gather and unwind during a very stressful time. With this in mind, I began to design a “Super-Surface� like piece of furnature that can foster a wide variety of activities in the shape of a loop.

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Land Relatives Studio This studio was structured around two main areas. First, dealing conceptually, historically, theoretically, and practically, with the issue of land, and its more legally formal variant, real property. Second, supporting the needs of two organizations, whose community-based work was centered around these topics. Around the halfway point we shifted our collective efforts as a studio in order to help a community located in Tazlina, Alaska help recover their indigenous lands.

Studio: Arch 8255 Term: Fall 2020 Professor: Gabriel Cuellar Duration: 12 Weeks Institution: UMN College of Design 28Saint Paul, MN

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Phase I As highlighted earlier, Phase I mainly focused on conceptually dealing with the historical, theoretical, and practical applications associated with the issue of land-based practices.

In this phase each graduate student had the opportunity to follow a topic or develop line of questioning that would ultimately lead to a visual that more accurately represents and often times critiques the current standards associated with various forms of real property.

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Illustration I This image helps illustrate the bastardization of historic spatial conditions. More specifically, slave dwelling sites located in Charleston, South Carolina.

Sites of oppression have been preserved to share the history of those uprooted and forcefully put to work in a system designed to strip them of their human identity. It’s important to note that this process also had the power to produce new power dynamics on and off the plantation. Lastly, this process ultimately created new spatial orders that reshaped how people are able to contribute to our society today.

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Phase II Phase II primarily focused on the more legal formal variant, while also beginning to make contact and conduct research in the various communities where we would be performing design proposals.

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SMITH SCOTT ROYAL AUSTIN, TX

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SELBY COMMONS LP

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KHALIQ NATHANIEL VICTORIA DAVIS

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PREM HOU MANAG LL

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SELBY COMMONS LP

2175 ST CLAIR LLC

PROPERTY NANNY INC DOWNTOWN ST PAUL

TOBASI PROPERTIES INC

SELBY WINE & SPIRITS

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In an effort to help consolidate various forms of old-data and new-knowledge, a zero-degree axonometric drawing was constructed for the group. This drawing proved to be invaluable, as it accurately displays massive amounts of reference data all in one place.

HOUSING & REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ST PAUL

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TOBASI PROPERTIES INC

SELBY GROTTO LIMITED PARTNERSHIP /EDINA/

SLD REDEV CO LLC & C/O DELLWOOD FINL SERVICE CO /COMO/

WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY

MYTANA PIPE SUPPLIER

FIELDS OF JOY FOOD / BEV CONSULTANT

MORNING STAR MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH

MIER USING GEMENT LC

ST ALBAN’S PARK II LLLP

PDMR ST. PAUL LLC

PPL SELBY AVENUE LLC & C/O PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING /MINNEAPOLIS/

BROWN MARY ELIZABETH /FROGTOWN, ST PAUL/

HUGHES ISABEL

ST. MATTHEWS CHURCH IN GOD

ORIGINAL RETAIL

DELANCEY GUILD SERVICES

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Phase III The third and final phase shifted our focus as a studio, and we set out to help produce visual data that could be used at a later date to help the Saint Paul, Selby Avenue community members advocate for a better future through various levels of built intervention.

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Illustration III Illustration III takes place at the intersection of Selby Avenue and Victoria Street, and it exhibits an alterantie vision for this intersection. One that is safe for neighborhood children, that extends businesses storefronts beyond their brick and mortal locations, and revitalizes the streetfront with plantings.

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Seattle Waste to Energy The goal of this project is to produce an architectural work that re-evaluates the renewable energy-producing typology, but also helps bring people together, educates, and increases the economic vitality of a region.

Studio: Masters Final Project Term: Fall 2020 Professor: Mike Christenson Duration: 16 Weeks Institution: UMN College of Design 36Seattle, WA

This project can be broken down into 3 phases. (Fall, Winter, & Spring) The Fall phase concists of mostly project definition and various forms of research. The Winter phase concists of one possibly two site visits, followed by some time to read and further synnthesize old forms of knowledge. The third and final Spring phase builds and develops a design proposal on the selected site in Seattle, Washington.

Modeling, testing, designing, refining, and ultimately producing a finished design deliverable along with a presentation.

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