victor rodriguez design
undergaduate architecture portfolio
Architecture should be translated as an expression of human values. Where technology, sustainability and context must converge to speak for a global vision on what architecture should represent, an expression of feeling, of purpose and of culture. The lack of refinement and durability in the design are the main challenges architecture faces today. By adding emphasis to highly functional spaces, with character, innovation and a great respect for its context, we are successfully responding to the human necessities. Because Architecture is art, emotions should be expressed through a well-manipulated architectural language. A responsible attitude towards context, the seek of a harmonious concept through the power of generating a meaning behind every design, the modernity contrasted by the simplicity in the use of materials, the responsibility for the implementation of alternative solutions for a sustainable design, and the use of technology to develop, enrich and forward high standard buildings with functionality & aesthetics, are the premises I incoroporate in every design.
VICTOR RODRIGUEZ www.vrdesgn.com [e-mail] vrodri23@student.scad.edu vrdesign@live.com [phone] (205) 915-3878
Architecture Bachelor of Fine Arts Savannah College of Art & Design 2010-2014
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RE-ACTIVATING A CULTURAL IDENTITY
Washington, DC Fall 2013 Mixed Use Proposal 94,000 SF Professor Ryan Bacha The project seeks to re-connect, reactivate, and re-produce the cultural vibe of the central Washington, DC area. Its design uses culture, connectivity and technology to achieve ecological and social flexibility, creating a potential spot for a sustainable and dynamic infrastructure with a cultural identity that provides active plazas, parks and an exceptional waterfront experience.
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the issues: The site faces two principal issues with the rest of the dense urban Washington, DC area: isolation and lack of connection. The site is adjacent to one of the principal entries to the city and its lack of connection creates a boundary between an active central location, to a deserted inactive riverfront location. Missing the opportunity to transform the site into a sustainable and dynamic infrastructure with a cultural identity that provides active public places, such as plazas, parks, but most importantly and exceptional waterfront experience.
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The proposed skin for the desing not only incorporates aesthetics, but most importantly is designed for environmental factors. The apperAluminum Storefront with Low-E coated insulating glass tures of each panel, is strategically placed to accomodate, meaning to absorb or receive heat and or light depending on the season of the year Benchmark Aluminum and the program they are located in. The more Composite Material (ACM) wide open they are, the most light they are Facade System receiving and the more private the spaces are, Benchmar HOC System: the closer the appertures get. So functionally, -Thickness 60mm (2.3in) they are deeply analyzed and placed appropri-U-value 0.35 W/m2k -Weight 22kg/m2 ately, which not only contributes to the saving on energy cost, but most importantly, accomodates any use at a desire effect.
The proposed skin for the desing not only incorporates aesthetics, but most importantly is designed for environmental factors. The appertures of each panel, is strategically placed to accomodate, meaning to absorb or receive heat and or light depending on the season of the year and the program they are located in. The more wide open they are, the most light they are receiving and the more private the spaces are, the closer the appertures get. So functionally, they are deeply analyzed and placed appropriately, which not only contributes to the saving on energy cost, but most importantly, accomodates any use at a desire effect.
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Aluminum Frame Connector
Aluminum Storefront Mullion 6” Concrete Floor on Corrugated Metal Decking WWF Girder bolted to the WWF Beams Suspended Ceiling -HVAC, Plumbing and Lighting Fixtures
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Steel Panel Extruded-Steel Unit Frame Connector
Benchmark Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) Facade System
Raised Floors BTU/Ft2 Washington, DC 542
Benchmar HOC System: -Thickness 60mm (2.3in) -U-value 0.35 W/m2k -Weight 22kg/m2
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Extruded-Steel Unit Frame Connector Slab Attached Panel (Certain parts of the building)
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Having Washington DC a very temperate climate, especially for the proximity to the river, winds were the primary concern. The placement of the site has a direct impact of both winter and summer winds, in which a deep study needed to be done for a better understanding of capturing and releasing wind flows depending on the season. This help developed the masses according to the wind flow directions. Summer Winds flow from the Southwest to the Northeast, which helped to open and split masses for direct summer ventilation to both the building, and the urban and public plazas. In the other side, winter winds, which tend to be the harshest ones, were blocked by the addition of masses from the Northwest side of the site, which protects the urban and public plazas located behind the masses and most of the program from the cold winds. Being Green Roofs one of the top demands in the DC area, a whole building green roof system is incorporated to not only serve and entertain users, but to promote, and produce green services, such as recollection of water, noise & sound insulation, air quality and temperature controller.
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Benchmark Ceramic Tile K20 are being used in the exterior of the retail areas mainly for aesthetic purposes. Benchmark Ceramic Tile K20 -Thickness 60mm (2.3in) -U-Value 0.35 W/m2k -Weight 37.5 Kg/m2
Retail is placed adjacent to both street access, Potomac Avenue and 1st ST SE, which facilitates its public access, by promoting the program through it.
Being Green Roofs one of the top demands in the Washington DC area, a whole building green roof system is incorporated to not only serve and entertain users, but to promote, and produce green services, such as recollection of water and temperature controller.
Restaurants are placed in the fourth level adjacent to the Green Roof for many programmatic purposes: excellent views to the Anacostia River and the National Stadium and an open-air environment experience.
Residential spaces are placed furthest to the noise levels around the context, which also increased views to the Anacostia River and easy access to the urban plazas of the proposed urban plan
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OFFICES Offices are closest to the Street, Potomac Avenue, for easierand faster accessibility
kingspan panels competition KINGSPAN PANELS Benchmark Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) Facade System is being used for aesthetics, but mainly for environmental factors. Solar Radiation is being controlled through the different sizes of the appertures of the panels, which are strategically placed according to the solar skin analysis, reducing energy cost and creating a greener and healthier building system.
One of the most important factors the design includes, is its incorporation of the Kingspan Panels. They are used strategically for environmental and aesthetics purposes. In the exterior skin, Benchmark Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) Facade System is being used for aesthetics, but mainly for environmental factors. Solar Radiation is being controlled through the different sizes of the apertures of the panels, the specific thickness and insulation, and the material itself, which are strategically placed according to the solar skin analysis and the progra,m,, reducing energy cost and creating a greener and healthier building system. In the other side, Benchmark Ceramic Tile K20 are being used in the exterior of the retail areas mainly for aesthetic purposes, where the panels represent, luxury and cultural comfort.
Benchmark Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) Facade System -Thickness 60mm (2.3in) -U-Value 0.35 W/m2k -Weight 22Kg/m2
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The Xenia lally flagship store: NYC
SoHo, New York City, NY Spring 2013 Retail-Mixed Use Proposal one 30,000 SF The second proposal was a remake of the collaboration with the fashion designer Xenia Lally. Her senior collection served as an ispiration of the project’s design, form and structure. Sumptuous Swate 2 intends to resemble lally’s ispiration of mountains and large rock formations -”the humbling feeling of being next to something so much bigger than you.” The fascinating effect created by the horizontality movement of the lines transports any user into a still and serene atmosphere. Ultimately, this effect, is translated in the design where the shape, and the lines appear to dissolve boundaries and the overlapping and draping materials emulate the depth of the mountainous setting.
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SoHo is one of the City’s most eclectic shopping enclaves, holding everything from designer boutiques and one-of-akind shops to bargain emporiums and kids stores. Bordered by Canal Street to the south, Lafayette Street to the east, Sixth Avenue to the west and Houston Street to the north (the name SoHo comes from the neighborhood’s location—south of Houston), the neighborhood tempts shoppers at every corner. SoHo’s architecture adds to the shopping experience. Cast-ironfronted buildings, many of which date back to the late 19th century, line the cobblestone streets and are as ornate as they are historic.
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the xenia lally flagship store The organic, rigid and elegant design it is a resemblance of Xenia Lally’s 2013 Spring Collection and the way she creates Fashion. Xenia’s collection consists of very light and soft materials that gives an effortless sense of movement and fluidity. The fabrics were perfectly chosen to allow the drapping, layering and weaving techniques that represent her 2013 collection. Linen knit, light weight suede, a little nit of leather and wool crepe are mixed with matte colors to allow the eye to balance between the light and soft with a refined and complex fabric execution. This effect on the fabrics, is also translated into the design, where the spaces, the structure and the skin, create a very easy, but sophisitcated design. This effect would not only attract shoppers because of its great contrast with the rest of the site, but would create a landmark in the Soho shopping district and would symbolize new ways of creating fashion houses.
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The Xenia lally flagship store: NYC
SoHo, New York City, NY Spring 2013 Retail-Mixed Use Proposal One 30,000SF Professor Laraine Montgomery The first proposal was a design of the collaboration with the fashion designer Xenia Lally. Her senior collection served as an ispiration of the project’s design, form and structure. Sumptuous Swate 1 intends to resemble Xenia’s photograph of the fluid mountains, and the translation of them into the garments. She uses fluidity, movement, simplicity, ease, effortless, softness, transitional, drapping, layering and weaving to describe her collection. They design was thought through in terms of aesthetics, functionality and durability. The effects of tectonics such as line, draping, layering and pinching, add volume andsophistication to her clothes, which is what I strived for as a result for this project. not onlymeets function, but its form meets Xenia’s sophisticated collection.
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The conceptual models were derived from Xenia’s photograph of the fluid mountains, and the translation of them into the garments. She uses fluidity, movement, simplicity, ease, effortless, softness, transitional, drapping, layering and weaving to describe her collection. They models were thought through in terms of aesthetics, functionality and durability. All three of them serve as a lounge-chair, table and rack-hanger. The simplicity was maintained in the three models, letting the object stand out. The effects of tectonics such as line, draping, layering and pinching, add volume and sophistication to her clothes, which is what I strived for as a result for this project. The translation of this tectonics to the piece of furniture is evident, where structure plays the primary role, while still maintaining a very simple, but yet intricate design that serves its purpose: a lounge, table and displaying item.
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Sumptuous swathe 1 is a resemblece of Lally’s philosophy towards fashion. It is very intricate, where she describes her work as ‘raw,’ being exposed and more importantly, comfortable, which is something women need to express their strong individual confidence and comfort through the use of her garments. Her technique of letting the fabric ‘wrap around the woman’s body’ allows the fabric to become the action, while letting the model be the strucutre. By her technique, the garments speak and make the user feel lighter. The effects of tectonics such as line, draping, layering and pinching, add volume, structure, but most importantly, something that is hard to find in ready-to-wear garments, “SOPHISTICATION.” The design resembles all of this characteristics, where pinching, layering and draping come into place. The idea was to contrast the surrounding massive context with a really light and soft material that would not only contrast and make the building a landmark, but would create a lighter and sophisticated way of shopping.
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The effects of tectonics such as line, draping, layering and pinching, add volume and sophistication to Xenias clothes, which is what I strived for as a result for this project. The translation of this tectonics to the design is evident, where structure plays the primary role, while still maintaining a very simple, but yet intricate design that serves its purpose: a fashion house in the exclusive Soho District. The skin of the desing is also a resemblence of Xenia’s collection consists of very light and soft materials that gives an effortless sense of movement and fluidity. The fabrics were perfectly chosen to allow the drapping, layering and weaving techniques that represent her 2013 collection. Linen knit, light weight suede, a little nit of leather and wool crepe are mixed with matte colors to allow the eye to balance between the light and soft with a refined and complex fabric execution.
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BLENDING ART & SCIENCE TOGETHER
Hutchinson Island, GA Winter 2013 Educational-Mixed Use Proposal 22,500 SF Professor El Nahas This building seeks to educate users through the use of interactive technology, by displaying and using the existing environmental factors of the site to promote them. The project would combine two design disciplines, physical architecture and interaction design for a creative development of a scientific environmental research and process. Truly, both fields blend art and science, as well as both sides of the mind, understanding the phenomenology of interactions, tangible and intangible, from the architecture and the environment.
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Hutchinson Island is a river island in the Savannah River, north of downtown Savannah, Georgia, The island is formed where the Back River breaks off to the north from the Savannah River. Historically, Hutchinson Island’s land use has been primarily industrial, much of which supported the Port of Savannah, one of the busiest containerization cargo ports in the world. The island is roughly 7 miles long and 1 mile wide at its widest point. Hutchinson Island offers a scenic two-minute ride on the Savannah River. This being of a commercial, and industrial site, a learning center was needed in order to promote its natural resources. And this being a riverfront, accessibility, views and aesthetics is necessary to make it not only a landmark, but to create a new way of promoting
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approach a direct entry and approach to the building would facilitate the users its way and being an empty path, it would not required any trees deforestation.
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using the existing topography and site conditions, the site is broken into many ways to let the users explore the site itself with no deforestation necessary.
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The organic design is a resemblance of the surrounding environment and nature. Having a riverfront, views are optimized through a clear glazing that is protected with an organic skin. The skin resembles the water flow of the Savannah River and not only serves to protect from the sun, but creates a horizontal organic rhytm s that lets the building be par of nature. A green roof is also incorporated to let the users enjoy the views of the Savannah Skyline and river, and to let them explore with the surrounding ecosystem.. 6
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The spaces of the center connect visually and physically with nature and the ecosystem around it. The spaces were strategically organized to maximize views, to receive or block solar light and winter and summer winds and to easy access at and from any point of the building. A flowy skin was incorporated within the spaces to let the inside interact with the outside and again to make the design more dynamic, organic, but most importantly to make it an identity for its kind.
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Tybee Island, GA Fall 2012 Transport-Mixed Use Proposal 22,500 SF Professor Jean Jaminet The intent of this project is to coalesce two adjacent riverbanks so that they may establish a symbiotic relationship and collide in a gentle and elegant nexus. In context, the duality of opposite forces applied to the riverbanks form the propagated topography, which orchestrates a multitude of dynamic and hybrid interaction of paths, creating a hybrid spatial separation while maintaining spatial fluidity. The replicate of these forces, create a dynamic rippling pattern that weaves around the predominant form, accentuating the sensual surfaces while blending them with the ground and the water.
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Analog imagery in relationship to the �nexus� was necessary to facilitate the process of the conceptual phase, Its mixture of diagram with graphics helped form the figure-ground graphic, site diagram, which contributed to the creation of the site strategy proposal, and the design of the building .
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The fluidity of these apertures are a result of the surface logic. When the two forces meet and create the nexus, the replication of these forces form the appertures. Linear appertures follow the curvature of the rippling surface, accentuating both surfaces and defining a central nexus in the volume. These appertures allow for views and are strategically placed to satisfy the program.
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EVOLVING HISTORY
Savannah, GA Spring 2012 Performing Arts Center Proposal Conceptual SF Professor Timothy Woods Emerging from the historical context, the SCAD performance’s center design idiom is all about integration and connectivity. By respecting the history and experiencing the present of the site’s existing structure, the design evolves to a futuristic space. The fluid form, which emerges from the program, an aerial performance, allows for a gentle but dramatic transformation, bringing the city of Savannah, a new way of experiencing art.
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The serial vision sketches collect field notes of the proposed site. In the following sketches, analysis to the context physical properties and connnections are shown, which influenced the designs in terms of spatial relationships and scale. They also analyze textures, entries, and circulation, which show a great understanding of where are the major spaces of circulation, which can benefit the design itself to promote it.. Finally, understanding of man-made (Ruins) vs nature (landscape), solid vs void, open vs enclosed, which helped to determined programmatic spaces and function.
Site Spatial analysis After analyzing the site, a movement was required to explore the relationship between movement and space. Because the program is a performing arts space and in the surroundings, there is no other permonce like it, I decided to use aerial silk. Because of its delicacy and sensual movement, it inspires every spectator, which influeces on how architecture can visually create an optical and rhythmical movement. The basics of the aerial silk involve a performer who climbs up a suspended fabric anywhere from 20-50 feet high, and uses the fabric to wrap, fall, spiral, swing, and contort their body.
Movement Exploration analysis The movement study help to better understand the relationship between human proportions, to architecture. It also contributed to the conceptualization of how architecture can be manipulated through any set of movement. Conceptual models were necessary to demonstrate the rhythmical effect, yet showing structural capcities of resistance. Skin studies in the conceptual model defined form and some programmatic spaces. They were translated into a transformative site diagrams, which helped defined the final form and the connection between the whole site.
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FORM, SPACE & ORDER
Conceptual Site Fall 2011 Public-Mixed Use Proposal Conceptual SF Professor Laraine Montgomery Fundamentals one main purpose was to analyze and further understand the fundamentals of design in relationship within buildings. Ordering principals such as: axis, symmetry & Balance, Hierarchy, Rhythm & Repetition, Geometry and Parti, were necessary in the development of the design to create an architectural language that defined a clear way of understanding spaces. Entry, Path and Approach were directly translated through the use of this principles to strengthen and reinforce the unity between them and to create a harmonious structural path system.
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Spaces and form were derived from the exploration of space making by generating a system of spaces from a space(s). This process has two purposes. One, to create a space(s) which has a regulating geometry that allows extension and growth into a system (pattern) of spaces. And two, to demonstrate the common architectural design strategy of part to whole or room to building. Ordering principals such as: axis, symmetry & Balance, Hierarchy, Rhythm & Repetition, Geometry and Parti, were necessary in the development of the design to create an architectural language that defined a clear way of understanding spaces. Entry, Path and Approach were directly translated through the use of this principles to strengthen and reinforce the unity between them, while physical media needed to be used in order to translate the 2D design space strategies.
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Laid out along Barnard Street in 1847, Chatham Square was one of the last four squares laid out to the south. The square is anchored by the Bernard Street School at 212 West Taylor Street, which was built in 1901 in the Egyptian revival style with an Italian tile roof. The building was recently purchased and renovated by the Savannah College of Art and Design.Wealthy Savannahians made rich by the cotton boom built many beautiful Greek revival homes in this area during Savannah’s “golden age” in the 1850s. The ward contains one of the city’s best blocks of rowhouses.
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PEPE HALL DESIGN The historic linear plan was specially designed for educational purposes. Its easy access circulation throughout the entire building, in combination with spacious halls and rooms, makes Pepe Hall a distinguishable building . Pepe’s eccentric exterior, beautifully wrapped in spanish roof tiles, makes PepeHall a unique building in its surroundings of a historic city, while its green areas are a resemblece of the relaxing historic savannah squares.
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Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Summer 2011 Residential Under Construction 20,75 SF Client: Luis Eduardo Rodriguez The residence blends a modern translation of a traditional style with a cultural architectural language, yet respecting its context.. Social, economy and ecology are the primary drivers of the design, where cost savings and community interaction create an exceptional way of living.
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The construction process began on summer 2012 and due to the locality of materials, the construction process fastened, which is helping to save cost. The images on the right, show the first level of the design, where brick, in-cast concrete, steel beams, and rebars are being used as the primary structural members. aesthetic and thermal purposes. The neigboorhood, where the building is located, is still in construction process, where roads, and neighboor builidngs are being constructed and or would begin their construction soon.
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Tonala, Jalisco, Mexico Summer 2011 Residential Proposed (construction begins on 2013) 2026 SF Client: Guillermo Arceo The residence explores the modernity with the simplicity in the use of spaces, and materials, Local materials are being used to reduce cost and to blend with the surrounding context. Privacy, ecology and economy are the primary drivers, where cost savings and views were strategically planed to make a high-end and comfortable way of living.
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ARCHITECTURAL EXPOLORATIONS IN PARAMETRICS DESIGN & ELECTRONIC DESIGN
Virtual Practices show a range of explorations of different computer aided design softwares.. Including, revit, rhino, grasshopper and Sketchup. They explore parametric and generative modeling through associative geometry using advanced applications in building design. They focuse on simulating behavioral and formal responses to design constraints and limits and rules as a framework for understanding their implications as applied to building form. These explorations were intended for studies to demonstrate a wide range of factors. From design form & enclosure, to different ways of creating structural systems. Aesthtics, practical enclosures, environemntal skin studies and structural patterns are applied in the following digital works.
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Fall 2013 Transport: Pedestrian Bridge Software: Revit Professor: Scott Dietz This project explores Rigging and Placeholder strategies as elements of parametric design as they relate to structure and enclosure. The bridge form includes a layered system that incorporates a shading/rain screen and a Hexagonal frame shape.
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report & repeat ARCH 414 Fall 2013 Facade Enclosure Software: Revit Professor: Scott Dietz This project explores reporting and repeating strategies as elements of parametric design as they relate to a responsive façade enclosure and structure. It uses Curtain Panels by Pattern and Adaptive Components in Revit to create a layered enclosure system that includes enclosure system, structural system, and a Reactive Element layer with a “point(s) of influence” control system. This reactive element works environmentally, meaning, it is oriented to either receive or absorb light. Where the apperture is wider or bigger, the more natural light there is, while the smaller it gets, the less natural light it gets.
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Fall 2013 Facade Enclosure Software: Rhino/Grasshopper Professor: Scott Dietz This project explores strategies as elements of parametric design, which incorporates surface form, enclosure, structure, and screening systems.This reactive element works environmentally, meaning, it is oriented to either receive or absorb light. Where the apperture is wider or bigger, the more natural light there is, while the smaller it gets, the less natural light it gets. It also works programmatically, where views are maximize towards the placement of these appertures. The upper it is, the more view you get, and vice versa.
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Fall 2013 Facade Enclosure Software: Revit Professor: Scott Dietz This project explores increments and recursive strategies as elements of parametric design as they relate to form, surface, and structure. The geomtry serves as a envelope enclosure, which adds, depth, structure and a dynamic rhythm to any design it is applied to. Due to the very intricate details and shapes, it can serve as an installation, where light and visual illusions create a unique experience.
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mapping ARCH 414
Fall 2013 Canopy/Facade Enclosure Software: Rhino/Grasshopper Professor: Scott Dietz This project uses a pattern Mapping strategy as an element of parametric design as it relates to surface form and structure/enclosure.. The apperture of the panel serves as an aesthetic and rhythmical visual effect. while the structure is hidden to support the cannopy itself and an interior panel is incorporated for lighting purposes, creating a cleaner, yet sublime way of crossing paths.
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weaves ARCH 414
Fall 2013 Surface Structure Software: Rhino/Grasshopper Professor: Scott Dietz This projece uses the weaving strategy as an element of parametric design in relation to surface/form and structure. Structural organic chains serve to hold the geometry together, while an interior water-type surfece protects it from any climatic effects.
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ouborg ELDS 225
Spring 2012 Building Translation Software: Revit Professor: Jean Jaminet This project was studied and translated into revit in order to demonstate the correct use of the the software. Villa ouborg is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and originally designed by HM Architecten. The design for the Villa refers to the ideas of the International Style, where light, air and space are the key features of a perfect way of creating this type of architecture.
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arceos residence los
PROFESSIONAL WORK
Tonala, Jalisco, Mexico Summer 2011 Residential/Remodeling Proposed 1050SF Client: Oscar Arceo The residence explores the modernity with the simplicity in the use of spaces, and materials, Local materials are being used to reduce cost and to blend with the surrounding context. Social, ecology and economy are the primary drivers, where cost savings and views were strategically planed to make a high-end and comfortable way of living.
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Broadway Savings Institution
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expressions
Pencil on Vellum 22” x 34” Spring 2011 DESG 115 Professor Anthony Cissell
hand-work
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Hand-work not only expresses ones personal emotions, but it tells what any other medium can’t. The works show a variety of mediums and subjects that express what I enjoyed in the everyday lfe, architecture, culture and nature.
Infinity
Acrylic on Canvas 22” x 17” Spring 2010
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THE EXPRESSIONS
Oliva
Graphite Pencil 22” x 34” Winter 2011
Primaveras
Oil on Canvas 2 17” x 22” Spring 2010
Aethiopica
Acryilic on Canvas 22” x 17” Winter 2009
El ramo
Acryilic on Canvas 22” x 17” Spring 2010
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