The Journey of Seeing

Capturing Light

AN UNDERSTANDING OF MUSIC THOUGH A PATH OF WATER AND LIGHT

Inspiracion

Seeing

Capturing Light

Inspiration

AN UNDERSTANDING OF MUSIC THROUGH A PATH OF WATER AND LIGHT

Inspiration

Existng Subject: J.S.Bach , Suite I, Violonchello

Inspiration

Inspiration Process Drawing An interpretation of a sheet of music: Exercising thought process by creating a representation of an existing subject in order to gain the ability to approach the conceptual development of an architectutral project with creative research and original thinking.

The drawing attempts to represent the strings, creating an imaginary space suspended in the place between the opening and the conclusion of the music piece.

Inspiration

Developing an inspiraton by seeing and capturing an interactive structure designed by Bruce Nauman at The University of New Mexico campus named the “Center of the the Universe�, as a means to study space, gesture, contour, perspective, movement and light.

Inspiration

5 min. sketch of the greenhouse building in Taos, New Mexico

Inspiration

1 min. sketches of The Rancho the Taos, New Mexico church in Taos, New Mexico

Inspiration

ADITIVE DRAWING

SUBTRACTIVE DRAWING

Developing an understanding of light and shadow by drawing with two different techniques.

Aditive Drawing: Taking a pencil and drawing lines in a light background in order to define space, form, or object in the emptiness of a black page.

Subtractive Drawing: With a pencil drawing over a blank page so as to cover the page with graphite, then taking an eraser and erasing out the space, form, or object with light.

Inspiration

Perspective studies and figure ground studies of the Hacienda de los Martinez in Taos, New Mexico.

Seeking to understand spacial relationships of a traditional pueblo court house, its relationship to the site and to the sun.

Inspiration

Perspective Sketch of the Hacienda de los Martinez in Taos, New Mexico. Seeking to understand light and shadow as a way of representing architecture.

Seeing the decay of aged plaster as an interesting thing.

Seeing

When one travels and works with visual things -architecture, painting and sculpture - one uses one’s eyes and draws, so as to fix deep down one’s experience of what is seen. Once the impression has been recorded by the pencil, it stays for good, entered, registered, inscribed ... To draw oneself, to trace the lines, handle the volumes organize the surface ... all this means first to look, and then to observe and finally perhaps to discover ... and it is then that inspiration may come. Inventing, creating, one’s whole being is drawn into action, and it is this action which counts. _ Le Corbusier, Architect

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Hand Drafted Study of the “Center of the Universe”, at The University of New Mexico campus, Abuquerque.

Understanding light through orthograpic drawing.

Seeing

Free-hand Study of the “Center of the Universe”, at The University of New Mexico campus, Abuquerque.

Seeing

Understanding how to read three-dimensional space through orthographic projection.

Exploring architectural conditions and atmospheres through Precedent Study.

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PRECEDENT BUILDING HOUSE - N Sou Fujimoto

A home for two plus a dog. The house itself is comprised of three shells of progressive size nested inside one another. The outermost shell covers the entire premises, creating a covered, semi-indoor garden. Second shell encloses a limited space inside the covered outdoor space. Third shell creates a smaller interior space. Residents build their life inside this gradation of domain.

I have always had doubts about streets and houses being separated by a single wall, and wondered that a gradation of rich domain accompanied by various senses of distance between streets and houses might be a possibility, such as: a place inside the house that is fairly near the street; a place that is a bit far from the street, and a place far off the street, in secure privacy.

structure, the inside is invariably the outside, and vice versa. My intention was to make an architecture that is not about space nor about form, but simply about expressing the riches of what are `between` houses and streets.

Three nested shells eventually mean inďŹ nite nesting because the whole world is made up of inďŹ nite nesting. And here are only three of them that are given barely visible shape. I imagined that the city and the house are no different from one another in the essence, but are just different approaches to a continuum of a single subject, or different expressions of the same thing- an undulation of a primordial space where humans dwell. This is a presentation of an ultimate house in which everything from the origins of the world to a speciďŹ c house is conceived together under a single method.

That is why life in this house resembles to living among the clouds. A distinct boundary is nowhere to be found, except for a gradual change in the domain. One might say that an ideal architecture is an outdoor space that feels like the indoors and an indoor space that feels like the outdoors. In a nested

Understanding how to communicate a concept through media and representation techniques throught the use of Auto-Cad, Photoshop, and InDesign, throught an exploration of a Precedent in order to become familiar with the language of diagram and model making.

Seeing

Diagraming the ritual of “making tea� as a means to understanding human scale and proportion and its correlation with the built environment.

Seeing

Plan view of an interpretation of a“tea house” for one person as it relates to the diagrams of the ritual of making “tea” and connections, feeling and sensations captured through music.

Sensation and feeling are reinterpreted from J.S.Bach Suite I, Violoncello. into warm and cool colors that capture the sensations of the strings as you listen to the music.

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INTERIOR DESIGN

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Inspiration process drawing

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The Tea Room

Rendeing of the interpretation of a “tea house� as it relates to connections made to music.

Arch-503 Assignment A02.2 Alex Rodriguez

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SOLID TO VOID STUDY

SUN PATH STUDY

EMPTYING OUT STUDY

VOID LIGHT STUDY

STEREOTOMIC STUDIY

SEATING DIAGRAM

SPACIAL STUDY

Developing a relationship to chiaroscuro (the play of light and shadow) as the substance that colors and animates this space and developing an understanding of stereotomics, looking at architecture as an act of emptying out rather than one of building up.

The Abode of Vacancy.

Diagraming the “emptying out” the thickness of the walls in order to make room for light and people to enter, expanding the void for light to then be poured in.

Seeing

Tea House Plan view of “solid to void�as it relates to connections made to music, J.S.Bach Suite I, violoncello.

Re interpreting the sensations and feelings captured by the strings of the music thorough the use of space and light. Restriction and Openess mimic the tension as in the strings of music in order to find an asymetrical structure that enables the inhabitant to find balance in the space creatded.

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EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

INTERIOR PERPESPECTIVE

FLOOR PLAN - scale 1/2” = 1’-0”

SECTION PERSPECTIVE

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STUDY MODEL

south ELEVATION

CHASHITSU Sensation + Feeling Arch 503 - A05.1

Infusion of self awareness & contentment as in the ritual of making tea, drinking tea, entering a tea house are all aspects behind the design.

A feeling of warmth as in shelter, and comfort as in having the knowledge to choose.

As beings in a given space, the feeling of comfort manifests itself by familiar sensations and disconecting from the world to achieve a hight state of conciousnes.

2nd Presentation of the “Tea Hose” concept

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PERSPECTIVE

RENDERING

AXONOMETRIC

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SECTION A-A

study MODEL

study MODEL study MODEL

FLOOR PLAN

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south ELEVATION

east ELEVATION

north ELEVATION

west ELEVATION

TEA HOUSE Sensation + Feeling Arch 503 - A03.1

Infusion of self awareness & contentment as in the ritual of making tea, drinking tea, entering a tea house are all aspects behind the design.

A feeling of warmth as in shelter, and comfort as in having the knowledge to choose.

As beings in a given space, the feeling of comfort manifests itself by familiar sensations and disconecting from the world to achieve a hight state of conciousnes.

1st Presentation of the “Tea House” concept.

CAPTURING LIGHT

A Light Study: Developing a casual connection with a quality of light within a space and the atmosphere it generates in that space.

Capturing Light

Developing an understanding of how the building is to relate to the site. Diagraming, and documenting important site features that have a direct influence on siting the building in relation to its context.

This project is sited next the Rio Grande in El Bosque the New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Capturing Light

EXISTING BRIDGE

CAPTURING

L I G H T SITE IMAGE - COLOR STUDY

SITE NORTHWEST VIEW - TOWARDS BRIDGE

CONCEPT IMAGE PROJECT NORTH VIEW STUDY

CONCEPT IMAGE DISTANCE VIEWS STUDY

SITE IMAGE OF PROJECT NORTH

SITE LOWEST ELEVATION OF THE RIO GRANDE

SITE EDGE CONDITION

DY U T S

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SITE WEST VIEW TOWARDS EL BOSQUE

CONCEPT SKETCH LIGHT STUDY

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CONCEPT SKETCH SITE CONDITIONS DIAGRAM

CONCEPT SKETCH CAPTURING LIGHT THROUGH RICE FARMING BEDS

CONCEPT IMAGE VEGETATION IN BETWEEN PLATFORM DECKS

CONCEPT IMAGE CAPTURING LIGHT THROUGH RICE FARMING BEDS

IMAGES OF SITE CONTEXT

Capturing Light

views diagram

bosque boundary

project site

cotton trees (bosque canopy)

lowest elevation (wet ground)

Diagraming site conditions, views, circulation and activities as well as building’s siting among the canopy of cotton wood trees which are a main feature of the Bosque of New Mexico.

Capturing Light

Concept of raised beds influenced by the raised rice farms in China as a means to raise and capture light, making the building structure connect to its siting, and aligning planes of reflections in order to create a private space in a very public space.

Capturing Light

Material selections as they respond to the site and buildings intention to sing through light and shadow. The textured straided concrete captures the light throughout the day and plays a role in recording time as a thing of beauty that grows from the site to adorn and color the building. The Abode of Inperfection Timeless venetian plaster and polished marble captures light as it bounces off the walls and water ponds surrounding the structure.

Wood to represent the canopy of cotton wood trees while capturing the play of light in contrast to the reflective surfaces.

Capturing Light

From inspiration to space

Capturig Light

Preliminary visual presention of the the Tea House concept,

Capturing Light

elevation E A S T - 1/4” = 1’-0”

elevation N O R T H - 1/4” = 1’-0”

elevation W E S T - 1/4” = 1’-0”

S I T E P L A N - 1/32” = 1’-0”

interior R E N D E R I N G

elevation S O U T H - 1/4” = 1’-0”

inspiration process D R A W R I N G

exterior R E N D E R I N G

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model P H O T O G R A P H S + L I G H T S T U D I E S

spacial S T U D I E S

S I T E P L A N - 1/16” = 1’-0”

site C O N C E P T S K E T C H - capturing light

F L O O R P L A N - 1/4” = 1’-0”

entry ramp existing decking

capturing light R A I S E D W A T E R B E D S

TEA HOUSE inspiration

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Final visual presention of the the Tea House concept,

Capturing Light

A record of work produced during the Summer of 2015. by: Alex Rodriguez University of New Mexico, School of Architecture and Planning Instructors: David Schneider, David Mora, Mira Woodson, Arthur McGoey