Architecture Portfolio
Salvador Colmenero 2021-2023
Hello!
My name is Sal Colmenero, and I am a 2023 master's Graduate of the University of New Mexico’s Architecture and Planning Program. I am a diligent and self-driven, enthusiastic individual who has the eagerness to join a committed architectural design team! Throughout my master's program, my curiosity has led me to explore different implementations of current technological advances that the world has been using and apply them into an architecture system. Allowing me to think creatively and provide different perspectives in finding a solution to design problems.
I am excited to expand my passion in design and broaden my knowledge and experience in design. Although my current occupation in not design related, it has allowed me to view fresh design systems, across the United States. Gathering examples and perspectives from those who inhabit those spaces.
I can multitask and handle multiple projects, understand technical drawings, extensive knowledge in multiple architecture software programs, and have experience in managing and developing progress reports. I am comfortable in working in team settings and not afraid to be self-sufficient and learning different programs and tasks. I look forward to meeting you!
Education
MA. Architecture and Planning
University of New Mexico
May 2023
BA. Architecture and Planning
University of New Mexico
May 2015
High School Graduate Rio Grande High School
May 2009
Skills
3D Rhinoceros
Autodesk Revit
Autodesk AutoCAD
Lumion
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Premier
Languages
English/Spanish
RESUME
Design Expierence
Bernalillo County/ Projects for Public Space (PPS) (Jan 2015- May 2015)
Created conceptual plans for the renovation of the Civic Plaza, Designed and implemente prototypes for the Civic Plaza to help improve connectivity and constructive interaction with existing environment conditions.
City of Albuquerque/ Bernalillo County (Aug 2014Dec 2014)
Worked with the City of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County in creating new innovative conceptual plans for Albuquerque’s Master Plan on Central Ave.
Bernalillo County Parks and Rec Planning (Dec 2013 - May 2014)
Worked for Bernalillo County as an intern for Parks and Rec Planning Department. Assisted in Planning meetings, developed site plan and contexual research designs. I also assisted in creating the graphics for the County’s approval for a grant, to begin their renovations of Bridge st. and 20-year master plan.
Volunteer Work
Chavez Kajukembo Council/ Lead Designer (Dec 2017- Present)
Vice President to a nonprofit Martial Arts Association planning and organizing group. The council is in charge of organiing school events, seminars and fundraisers. Lead Designer to all school events, planned and produced marketing materials that range from fliers, brochures, photography, calendars, posters and pring design.
Chief Editor: Kajukembo Newsletter (Dec 2017- Mar 2019)
Designed and produced monthly newsletter for Chavez Martial Arts, communicating school updates, educational articles, and coordinated events.
Design Competition
MBMA Metal Building Design Competition 2022
MBMA Metal Design Competition required participants to choose a local city to design an innovative metal fire station. In addition to exploring architectural options, students learn about metal building manufacturing , design and construction.
Sandia National Labs Project Competition (2011)
Sandia National Labs created a two week conceptual project competition for the product called “Solar Glitter.” This allowed the participants to explore innovative design solutions in a team building environment.
Work Experience
Flight Attendant for Southwest Airlines (March 2019current)
The primary job of flight attendants is to keep passengers safe, ensuring that everyone follows security regulations and that the flight deck is secure. Flight attendants also try to make flights comfortable for passengers. At times, they may deal with passengers who display disruptive behavior.
Beer Distributor for Premier Distributing (Feb 2015Feb 2019)
Demonstrates vehicle features and takes customers on test drives. Demonstrates automobiles by explaining warranties and services. Closes sales by overcoming objections, asking for sales, negotiating prices, and completing sales and purchasing contracts. Provides sales management information by completing reports.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
In developing a concept for Cybernet, understanding human connection is important when analyzing the making of a home. However, all homes are different, what would a home look like for one person? To understand this concept, researching the film “Her” by Spike Jonze, provided a clear depiction of what loneliness and grief looks like after a divorce and what life looks like after healing. By tracing how the human brain depicts emotion, the synopsis of the movie was mapped out. From the main character's grief through his divorce, to falling in love with his IOS system. This concept map displays the complexities of life, and the connections one can gain by relating to those emotions.
01. CYBERNET
AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT,
Instuctor: Nora Wendell (sem 02.)
When analyzing the metropolis world of the film “HER,” we get an unconventional example of what the meaning of a home is. Demonstrated on a micro scale, the importance of human connection in a household is beautifully portrayed, giving the audience a perspective of how an environment can change when a person is experiencing grief and solitude.
The film's use of an advanced IOS system as a substitute for human connection is a taboo fantasy, in a sense that the users' individual connectivity to its IOS system becomes private and emotionally personal. Creating a human emotional connection to their device rather than viewing their device as an object or tool. In terms of developing the concept of Cybernet, the intention behind creating an IOS system that is used and shared as a tool within a community was an important aspect in developing the concept. Allowing for the system to be practically used as an aid to develop human connectivity within a community. To do that, Cybernet needed a young demographic that not only would know and easily access this Cybernet system, but also a group of individuals who shared a common issue that has been rising in the United States.
Following the theme of a Metropolis urban world, Affordable housing is an issue that has been a topic of discussion in many design and government communities. To the point that the topic has become a utopian fantasy based on its maintenance, sustainability, and cost. However, what if the solution to affordable housing is a technological system, that is used in our daily lives?
When designing this Urban Housing project, technology as a solution to living affordably is a new innovative way for mid "adults" (age 24-36) to purchase an affordable home and afford it. By using prefabricated designs and a technological software (Cybernet), Applicants can be approved instantly. Cybernet housing contains 8 to 16 housing units consisting of a one or two-bedroom apartment space. This urban housing is tech-savvy. Allowing the space to be customized by the owner. By utilizing a Housing Rent App., the owner can rent out the living and kitchen space to a different unit for a fixed time and price.
Highlighted areas on Floor 1, are rentable living space that can come apart and reattach to other units.
Giving the owner a chance to make additional income for rent or maximizing the owner's square footage for special occasions. Cybernet gives the luxury of customization and affordability in one unit. Cybernet integrated a mixture of innovative systems that allows for this housing project to not only be self-sustainable, but also allows it to be easily managed. Using manufacturing techniques such as turning mechanisms to dual-use I-beams, Cybernet’s structural properties allow for a kinetic feature that allows all housing units to be shifted and transported vertically. Each floor is capped with a concrete slab that has a mechanical track that allows for each unit to safely connect and shift with ease. From retractable-structural walls to smart sensor end handrails, Cybernet is a fresh new take on affordable housing.
Residental Unit: Floor 1: Rentable Living/Kitchen Area
Residental Unit: Floor 2: Bedroom
Concrete Slab Mechanical Track
Unit Horizontal Movement Shift
Unit to I-Beam Connection
Unit Vertical Movement Shift
02.EL REFUGIO HIGHLINE
Instuctor: Clare Cardinal-Pett (sem 04.)
Looking through the lens of progression and innovation, El Refugio Highline takes an innovative approach to sustainability in Emergency Architecture. With the topic of flooding being the main emergency, we must approach the question of permanency of a space and its functionality that it has in the city. Taking place in Mexico City, in the Tepeyac Hills. El Refugio Highline takes an original approach to mitigating a solution to Mexico's flooding and sinking problem and proposes an adaptive approach as a solution. El Refugio Highline focuses on creating a "refuge" highline that spans 3 miles across three mixed-use communities. This Highline not only incorporates agricultural crops, new adaptive housing, and a resource oculus that markets emergency supplies and food but also includes open space nodes that allow for opportunities for solitude and reflection for the old way of living. El Refugio Highline incorporates innovative water technology that harvests rainwater into its above-ground chinampa-inspired retention ponds. El Refugio's Tree structure columns incorporate various sustainable designs that allow innovative ways to collect and retain rainwater. Mexico City is currently facing a water issue that not only is compromising the integrity of its infrastructure, but it is causing a distribution issue. But it also incorporates technology through its tree structure columns, which gives a new form to sustainable resources. Instead of wasting resources that attempt to prevent Mexico City from flooding and sinking, why not give in to the inevitable and adapt to living with water again like the origins of Tenochtitlan? El Refugio Highline is the next evolution of Mexico City's future.
The Agri-Market is monumental, hovering over existing programs in the city.
Free Flowing Metal Roof dome: Designed for proper air circulation and protection from outside environments.
Harvesting
Straw Canals
Plastic Hollow Storage Water Canal
Stainless Steel Plate Connection Plate
Tree Column with Built in Water Canal
Tree Column
Ramp Structure Support
Tree Column Water Harvest
Tree Column Steel Structure
ADA Access Elevator
Water Drainage
Street Ramp Access points to El Refugio
Agriculture Crop Open Space Resource Oculus
Resource Oculus Adapting Living
Agri-Garden
Chinampa Open-Space
03. Espanola Fire Station
Instuctor: Kristina Yu (sem 03.)
As we begin to understand emergency architecture, the concept of collaboration and autonomy begins to emerge. The efforts for community engagement are encouraged as we rely on a symbol of reassurance when we think of emergency relief. The Espanola Fire Station creates mediation for the county in regards of becoming a beacon of hope. The fire station creates an environment that encapsulates the efforts of emergency relief and community engagement mixed in a structure. Metal throughout the structure serves for structural stability and strength. Symbolically setting a tone of unity and support in times of need throughout Espanola.
The Espanola Fire Station combines the Firehouse and civic center into one, allowing the boundaries of Public and Private Spaces to exist independently while creating opportunities for integration between the two. The Fire Station is divided into two floors, allowing the apparatus bays, crew area, and administration space to be housed on the first floor and the communication center, Mezzanine, and additional housing dorms on the second. Opportunities for unity between both programs are present between these public and private spaces taking place in, the memorial hall and museum are housed on the first floor and the training rooms, multipurpose center, and Terrace spaces exist on the second. Allowing these spaces of collaboration and unity also reflect on between the two programs, by using a soft pink. modular perforated metal facade. The fire station can accentuate the spaces within the public and private realm, as well as create a soft elegance to the fire station. Highlighting its civic component to the city, creating a welcoming atmosphere for its inhibitors.
Fire Station Program Block
Building Public/Private Diagram
Public Access Areas Restricted Crew only Areas
Interconnection Areas used by Crew/Public
Site Public/Private Diagram
Site Diagram
Secondary Structural Diagram
Primary Structural Diagram
Circulation Diagram
Roof Structural Diagram
Views from Communication Center to Apparatus Bay
Apparatus Bay/Fire Fighting Training Area
The Agri Network 04.
Instuctor: Gabriel F. Briggs (sem 01.)
Site Analysis
As we investigate Merced California, we see that Agri trading is the cities number one source of economy. Agri trading is known for buying and selling products through the forestry and farming industries. As agriculture fields keep growing outside of the Citys county line, Mercedes use of these trading has become essential to developing and maintaining the city's economy and lifestyle. However, the method of how Merced has been distributing these goods. Are not aligned with the demand the city requires to maintain their need. In which, the need for an agricultural logistic center becomes apparent to not only maintain these agricultural fields but also help create a network within the city and its county lines. Aiding in distributing agricultural crops and supplies and producing agricultural green spaces within the city limits.
By using technology as an asset, we begin to see what it is like to live in a world immersed in technological advances and use it as an advantage. To be more Specific, the use of artificial programming, digital surveying, and Drone usage and mechanics, can become helpful to the city of Merced. In hopes of creating a more efficient and balanced system. The need for a green Logistic center is proposed, which increases current economic Agri-trading. Local Agri-farmers and non-farmers can utilize this center not only to trade agricultural goods. To and from their fields but also to help implement a faster distribution system. This can create more micro Agri-green spaces in the city, easier e-commerce shipping and handling and a more effective system that can aid Merced to become a faster and more economical city for the future.
The Agri Network expands their resource crops by programming drones to Agri-Map around the city. Agri-Mapping is a program designed to search for vacant land and spaces within the city to identify the types of soil and precipitation levels of the land. If suitable, the drones will begin planting and developing agricultural crops within the city to expand networking and trading to outside resources.
In the Agri Network, the structure itself is 90 percent utilized by drone use. However, the structure has a public element that allows for a fun open space for the public. The Mezzanine area is an open space where Patreon's can have access to neighbor rooftops, which not only expands the open space but also delivers supplies through the neighbor programs.
Root walkway/ Resource Distribution Belt
Public Agri-Open Spaces
Drone Agri Mapping
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