Adrian Plaza Undergraduate Portfolio

Adrian plaza

Undergraduate Design Portfolio

Adrian Nicolas Plaza Cervantes

Bachelors of Science in Design - Architectural Studio (BSD) Design Studies Major

2019-2023

Arizona State University

Summary

Architecture is my passion, a journey where every line drawn and decision made weaves creativity, functionality, and emotion into spaces that inspire. I’m driven to craft designs that resonate with people; blending form and function to shape environments that stand as testaments to our shared human experience.

Education

January 2019 - May 2023

BSD- Architectual studies

Design Studies Major

Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, USA

Adobe

Contents

01

The Human Service Center

The Human Services Campus is the largest campus in the state of Arizona offering services to people experiencing homelessness and other community services. This project will explore what humane design means in an urban, desert environment for the clients and staff of the Human Services Campus, and for the surrounding neighborhood.

02 Riflettere (Desert botanical Garden)

In this Project we were working with Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona. we would seek to develop our abilities to recognize, observe, and analyze the nature of patterns and systems in our environment, in order to draw out new insights and innovations between the parallels of our findings.

03 Camelback Library Center

This Project will focus on architecture at the civic scale, investigated through the design of a public branch library. The public library, through its democratization of information and knowledge, is one of the foundational institutions of American society.

04 BridgewoodCommunity

This project we create a dwelling this could include Houses, apartments, row houses, townhouses, etc. The spot that we were given was in need of grocery shop, a gym, etc so they were included in the aprtment complex!

The Human Service Center

When Visiting the Human Service Center building, I immediately saw that no natural light was being brought into the building. This was already something i noted since the person giving us the tour had mention to us that people would have episodes where they would freak out because of past traumas. The site needed to be improved on as well. Fake grass was being used and there was almost no shading in the site. To reduce the heat in the area shading and trees had to be included in the site.

Floor Plan

West

The project is located in the Desert Botanical Garden. Riflettere stands for reflect in Italian; this name was picked because it would relate to the project. The point of this project was to bring something from nature and incorporate it into my building. The nature aspect that I chose was a leaf. I picked this because I had a vision of how I could make a leaf feel like a reflective space. People would usually come to the Botanical Garden to help reflect on loved ones or even relax from past traumas. Knowing this information, I did more research and found that the sound of water can help people reflect and feel at peace. I wanted to incorporate the leaves as the “roof” so that when it rains, the water will fall into the stream in the middle of the building. The stream represents the stem of the leaf. However, because we are located in a desert, rain rarely comes to the botanical garden, so pipes were going to help bring water to the leaf, which is shown in the construction plan. This project was our first attempt to focus more on our construction plans.

Camelback Library Center

A Library was a place where people would simply visit to read or get books. Now modern libraries have a bunch of new activities that help bring people into libraries since they’re slowly dying. the cause of this is from books becoming digital and making libraries pointless. With my library I want to include these new activities and include amazing views from the ceiling and dome to help bring more people into my model.

Floor Plan

Site Plan

South Elevation

West Elevation

North Section

West Section

Bridgewood Community

Bridgewood community is a multi-family residential housing located in the city of Mesa, AZ that has 20 units. Floor plans include units of one story and two stories houses. The sections demonstrate the inside of each housing unit along with the space in a unit. The elevation shows the overall structure of our whole site and window pattern throughout the building. Our concept design is a persian courtyard idea, allowing the landscape to be expressed throughout the site. Intergerting the green concept such as trees, plants, and grass along with the sidewalk. Which is a combination of several sidewalks to create a sense of direction, and green areas. A bridge is placed on the second floor in the center of the community along with a water foundation underneath the bridge to emphasize the aesthetics of the community.

Floor